Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Steinem, Gloria

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Doris Lessing

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bennis, James

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

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

King, Doug

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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

Mckay, David O.

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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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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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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Young

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

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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

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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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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

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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