Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heinlein, Robert

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.

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bennis, James

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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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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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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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.

Peck, M. Scott

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Mckay, David O.

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Confucius

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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.

Crane, Frank

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.