Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Hitopadesa

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

Twain, Mark

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Doris Lessing

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Bible

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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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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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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

White, Patrick

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hall, Milton

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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

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

Dubos, Rene