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

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lessing, Doris

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.

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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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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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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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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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

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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 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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, English

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Young

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

White, Patrick

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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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.

Sher, Barbara

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von