Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Churchill, Winston

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

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

Bennis, James

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.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young

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

Heinlein, Robert

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Albrecht, F.

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

White, Patrick

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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