Motivational Quotes

Learning

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Disraeli, Benjamin

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Waitley, Denis

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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

11.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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

Euripides

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

19.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

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The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Buzan, Tony

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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

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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

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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

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

Seneca

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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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

Hitopadesa

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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Doherty, Henry L.

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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Bennis, James

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.