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

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Hall, Milton

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Bennis, James

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

Proverb, Latin

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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Twain, Mark

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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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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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Young, Edward

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Virgil

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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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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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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Young

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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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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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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. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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