Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Mckay, David O.

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

George Iles

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

Proverb, English

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

Hazlitt, William

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

Seneca

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

King, Doug

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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.

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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