Motivational Quotes

Learning

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Proverb, English

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

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

Young

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

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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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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Euripides

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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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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

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

31.

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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

38.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bennis, James

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose