Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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 is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Euripides

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

Seneca

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

King, Doug

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

Kraus, Karl

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Young

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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

Bennis, James

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Dubos, Rene