Motivational Quotes

Learning

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

- Landau, Saul

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Proverb, Latin

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

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

King, Doug

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

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Euripides

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Bennis, James

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von