Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

Wooden, John

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, English

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

King, Doug

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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

Young

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

Bennis, James

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

Twain, Mark

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

Martina Horner

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

Confucius

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken