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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Kraus, Karl

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Hitopadesa

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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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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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, English

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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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 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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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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Erasmus, Desiderius

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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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

Wooden, John

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

George Iles

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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