Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Dubos, Rene

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Confucius

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

King, Doug

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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 years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Euripides

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Bible

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Ruskin, John

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Virgil

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

Bennis, James

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George Iles

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

Seneca

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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.

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese