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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Young

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

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

Young, Edward

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Virgil

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Confucius

18.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Hitopadesa

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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

Bennis, James

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Carte, L.

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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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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

39.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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 is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Albrecht, F.

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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.

46.

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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