Motivational Quotes

Learning

Much learning does not teach understanding.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Learning

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Patrick

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

King, Doug

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Proverb, English

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

Carte, L.

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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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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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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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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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

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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 things which hurt, instruct.

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

George Iles

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

Young