Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Young

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

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Confucius

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Virgil

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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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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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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Dubos, Rene

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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 first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Latin

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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