Motivational Quotes

Learning

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

- Falkland, Lucius C.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Heinlein, Robert

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

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

King, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Young, Edward

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

Seneca

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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

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

Euripides

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Young

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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Hitopadesa

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Bennis, James

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

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Confucius

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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.

47.

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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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo