Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Young

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

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

Seneca

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bible

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Twain, Mark

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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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.

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

Proverb, English

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ruskin, John

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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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There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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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 by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Proverb, Latin

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wooden, John

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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.