Motivational Quotes

Learning

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Jensen, Eric

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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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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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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Confucius

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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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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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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Waitley, Denis

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