Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- King, Doug

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Euripides

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

George Iles

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

10.

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

White, Patrick

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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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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

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

Buzan, Tony

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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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bennis, James

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

Young

28.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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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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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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