Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Learning

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

King, Doug

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Doris Lessing

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Heinlein, Robert

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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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.

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

Virgil

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, English

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When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Moyers, Bill

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Twain, Mark

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

Hazlitt, William

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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 learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark