Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- George Iles

Best Quotes about Learning

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lessing, Doris

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

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Seneca

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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

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

Bennis, James

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Virgil

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Hitopadesa

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Proverb, English

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Latin

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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 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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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Jensen, Eric

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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.