Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Proverb, Latin

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Twain, Mark

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Virgil

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Edward

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That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Proverb, English

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Seneca

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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennis, James

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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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