Motivational Quotes

Learning

You can't learn less.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Learning

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

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Proverb, English

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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 is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Wooden, John

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

George Iles

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

Churchill, Winston

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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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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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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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Rogers, Will

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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