Motivational Quotes

Learning

Much learning does not teach understanding.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennis, James

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hitopadesa

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

Ruskin, John

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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

Young

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

White, Patrick

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, English

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

Albrecht, F.

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Euripides

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

Buzan, Tony