Motivational Quotes

Learning

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

- Strindberg, J. August

Best Quotes about Learning

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.

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

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

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

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

George Iles

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Proverb, Latin

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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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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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Young, Edward

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Seneca

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

King, Doug

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

Euripides

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon