Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Baker, Newton D.

Best Quotes about Learning

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Confucius

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

Doris Lessing

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

Heinlein, Robert

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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

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

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

15.

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

Baker, Newton D.

18.

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

Kraus, Karl

19.

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

George Iles

20.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

21.

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

Confucius

22.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

23.

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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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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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

28.

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

29.

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

Virgil

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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

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Proverb, Latin

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hitopadesa

39.

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

King, Doug

42.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

44.

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.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Bennis, James