Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Baker, Newton D.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Steinem, Gloria

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.

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Mckay, David O.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

White, Patrick

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

Seneca

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Waitley, Denis

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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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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

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

Bennis, James

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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

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

Hitopadesa

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

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

Young

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Proverb, English

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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

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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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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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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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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon