Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Ruskin, John

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Young, Edward

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Young

Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Sher, Barbara

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

Hitopadesa

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

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

George Iles

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

King, Doug

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Waitley, Denis

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

Jensen, Eric

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Euripides

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, Latin

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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

Virgil

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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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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard