Motivational Quotes

Learning

Much learning does not teach understanding.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Learning

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Heinlein, Robert

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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 geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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

Confucius

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hitopadesa

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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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