Motivational Quotes

Learning

There is no time of life past learning something.

- Ambrose, St.

Best Quotes about Learning

1.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

2.

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

3.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Schweitzer, Albert

4.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

5.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

6.

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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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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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

9.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

11.

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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

16.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

17.

If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.

18.

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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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

20.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Proverb, Latin

23.

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

George Iles

24.

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

25.

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

Steinem, Gloria

26.

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

King, Doug

27.

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

28.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

29.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Lessing, Doris

31.

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

Heinlein, Robert

32.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

33.

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.

34.

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

Seneca

35.

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

36.

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

Hitopadesa

37.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

38.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

39.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

40.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

41.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

42.

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

43.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

44.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

45.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

46.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

47.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

48.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

49.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

50.

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius