Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Ruskin, John

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bennis, James

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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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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Euripides

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

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

Young, Edward

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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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

Seneca

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Buzan, Tony

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Virgil

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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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

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

King, Doug

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

Young

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

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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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