Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Albrecht, F.

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

Seneca

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

Virgil

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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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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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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

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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

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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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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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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Young, Edward

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A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

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

Trotsky, Leon