Motivational Quotes

Learning

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Waitley, Denis

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Bennis, James

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Confucius

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

Twain, Mark

11.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

14.

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

Dubos, Rene

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

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

18.

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

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

22.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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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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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Virgil

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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

32.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

34.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

35.

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

Seneca

36.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Euripides

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

41.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Kraus, Karl

43.

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

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Bible

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi