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

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

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

Palmer, George Herbert

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Young, Edward

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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Euripides

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young

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Erasmus, Desiderius

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

George Iles

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Wooden, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.