Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Baker, Newton D.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gregory The Great, St.

Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Hitopadesa

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

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

Virgil

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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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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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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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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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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, English

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

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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