Learning Quotes
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Learning
Adams, Abigail
1744-1818 American Letter Writer
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
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Adler, Mortimer J.
1902 American Educator Philosopher
It is always in season for old men to learn.
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Aeschylus
BC 525-456 Greek Dramatist
There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
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Albrecht, F.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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Alcott, Amos Bronson
1799-1888 American Educator Social Reformer
There is no time of life past learning something.
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Ambrose, St.
340-397 Bishop of Milan
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
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Baker, Newton D.
Don t just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
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Bennis, James
Take good hold of instruction and don t let her go, keep her for she is your life.
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.
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Blount, Roy Jr.
American Sports Writer
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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Burns, George
1896-1996 American Comedy Actor
Learning how to learn is life s most important skill.
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Buzan, Tony
British Peak Performance Expert Trainer Author Creator of Mind Mapping
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.
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Buzan, Tony
British Peak Performance Expert Trainer Author Creator of Mind Mapping
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
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Byrne, Robert
With just enough of learning to misquote.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
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Carte, L.
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.
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Cash, Johnny
1932 American Musician Singer Guitarist Songwriter Actor Composer
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.
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Cervantes, Miguel De
1547-1616 Spanish Novelist Dramatist Poet
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.
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Chesterfield, Lord
1694-1773 British Statesman Author
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.
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Chesterfield, Lord
1694-1773 British Statesman Author
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.
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Chesterfield, Lord
1694-1773 British Statesman Author
Personally, I m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
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.
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Crane, Frank
American Actor
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.
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Crosby, Cathy Lee
American Actress Producer Author
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
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D'Angelo, Anthony J.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
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D'Angelo, Anthony J.
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
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Deming, W. Edwards
1900-1993 American Management Consultant Who Helped Turn Japan's Economy Around
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
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.
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Doherty, Henry L.
1870-1939 American Utilities Executive/Engineer
All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
1859-1930 British Author Sherlock Holmes
More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
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Dubos, Rene
1901-1982 French-born American Bacteriologist
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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Edwards, Bob
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The years teach us much the days never knew.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
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.
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Erasmus, Desiderius
c1466-1536 Dutch Humanist
I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.
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Falkland, Lucius C.
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.
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Ford, Henry
1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company
The things which hurt, instruct.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
He that won t be counseled can t be helped.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
You can t learn less.
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Fuller, Buckminster
American Engineer Inventor Designer Architect Geodesic Dome
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Fuller, R. Buckminster
1895-1983 American Inventor Designer Poet Philosopher
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Old foxes want no tutors.
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Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
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.
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Gates, Bill
1955 American Computer Engineer Businessman Founder of Microsoft
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.
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Gelb, Michael J.
American Peak Performance Expert Author Trainer
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
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Gibbon, Edward
1737-1794 British Historian
I ve studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.
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Gregory The Great, St.
c 540-604 Italian Pope
Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you ve held.
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Hall, Milton
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.
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Haydon, Benjamin
1786-1846 British Artist
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.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
Learning isn t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
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Heinlein, Robert
1907-1988 American Science Fiction Writer
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.
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Hemingway, Ernest
1898-1961 American Writer
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
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Hillel, Rabbi
30BC - 9 AD Jewish Rabbi Teacher
Learning is a livelihood.
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Hitopadesa
600-1100 AD Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra
That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.
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Hitopadesa
600-1100 AD Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Huxley, Thomas H.
1825-1895 British Biologist Educator
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
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Jensen, Eric
You aren t learning anything when you re talking.
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Johnson, Lyndon B.
1908-1973 Thirty-sixth President of the USA
Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
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Keyes Jr., Ken
1921-1995 American Author
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
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King, Doug
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
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Kipling, Rudyard
1865-1936 British Author of Prose Verse
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Kraus, Karl
1874-1936 Austrian Satirist
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.
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu
1895-1986 Indian Theosophist
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
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Landau, Saul
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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Lavater, Johann Kaspar
1741-1801 Swiss Theologian Mystic
That s what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Lessing, Doris
1919 British Novelist
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
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Locke, John
1632-1704 British Philosopher
What you think about when you don t have to think, shows what you really are.
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Mckay, David O.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Mead, Margaret
1901-1978 American Anthropologist
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.
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Moyers, Bill
American Author Speaker
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.
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Naisbitt, John
American Trend Analyst Futurist Author
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Novalis
1772-1801 German Poet Novelist
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
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Palmer, George Herbert
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.
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Peck, M. Scott
American Psychiatrist Author
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Perelman, Sydney Joseph
1904-1979 American Humorous Writer
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
All learning has an emotional base.
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Plato
BC 427-347 Greek Philosopher
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Pope, Alexander
1688-1744 British Poet Critic Translator
We learn by teaching.
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Proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
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Proverb, English
Sayings of British Origin
Who God does not teach, man cannot.
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Proverb, Gaelic
Sayings of Gaelic Origin
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
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Proverb, Latin
Sayings of Latin Origin
A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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Rogers, Will
1879-1935 American Humorist Actor
Income seldom exceeds personal development.
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Rohn, Jim
American Businessman Author Speaker Philosopher
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
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Rohn, Jim
American Businessman Author Speaker Philosopher
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
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Ruskin, John
1819-1900 British Critic Social Theorist
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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Sahler, Leslie Jeanne
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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Schweitzer, Albert
1875-1965 German Born Medical Missionary Theologian Musician and Philosopher
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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Sher, Barbara
American Author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
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.
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
1751-1816 Anglo-Irish Dramatist
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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Smith, Lillian
1897-1966 American Author
Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!
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Solari, Enrique
I grow old learning something new every day.
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Solon
636-558 BC Greek Statesman
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
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Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
1834-1892 British Baptist Preacher
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Steinem, Gloria
1934 American Feminist Writer Editor
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.
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Strindberg, J. August
1849-1912 Swedish Dramatist Novelist Poet
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.
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Tracy, Brian
American Trainer Speaker Author Businessman
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one s enemies.
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Trotsky, Leon
1879-1940 Russian Revolutionary
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
Never learn to do anything. If you don t learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.
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Unknown, Source
Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.
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Unknown, Source
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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Unknown, Source
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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Unknown, Source
Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God s kingdom is a kingdom of order.
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Unknown, Source
If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.
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Unknown, Source
It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.
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Unknown, Source
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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Van Buren, Abigail
American Journalist Columnist
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
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Virgil
c 70 - 19 BC Roman Poet
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.
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Waitley, Denis
1933 American Author Speaker Trainer Peak Performance Expert
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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Waitley, Denis
1933 American Author Speaker Trainer Peak Performance Expert
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
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Waitley, Denis
1933 American Author Speaker Trainer Peak Performance Expert
I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
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White, Patrick
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Whitman, Walt
1819-1892 American Poet
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
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.
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Wilson, Eugene S.
It s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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Wooden, John
1910 American Basketball Coach
Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.
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Young
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
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Young, Edward
1683-1765 British Poet Dramatist
You can t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Zinn, Jon Kabat