Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Jensen, Eric

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Virgil

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Young

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Jensen, Eric

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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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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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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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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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

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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.

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

George Iles

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von