Motivational Quotes

Learning

Much learning does not teach understanding.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Learning

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

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

Twain, Mark

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Young

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

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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Young, Edward

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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.

Palmer, George Herbert

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Ruskin, John

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George Iles

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

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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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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When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Moyers, Bill

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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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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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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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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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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.