Motivational Quotes

Learning

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Learning

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Gates, Bill

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Moyers, Bill

All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

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Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Chesterfield, Lord

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That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa