Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Baker, Newton D.

Best Quotes about Learning

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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

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

George Iles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

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

Dubos, Rene

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

White, Patrick

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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.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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

Twain, Mark

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

Doris Lessing

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Proverb, English

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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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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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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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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

Hitopadesa

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Confucius