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

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

Dubos, Rene

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

George Iles

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

Virgil

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

Confucius

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Young

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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 other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Wooden, John

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Jensen, Eric

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

White, Patrick

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

Seneca

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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.