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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Young

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

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

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Virgil

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

Young, Edward

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Seneca

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Doris Lessing

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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