Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Gregory The Great, St.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Seneca

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

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

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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 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

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

Bennis, James

11.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

12.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

13.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

George Iles

20.

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

Virgil

21.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

22.

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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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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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Buzan, Tony

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Hitopadesa

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

Jensen, Eric

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