Motivational Quotes

Learning

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

King, Doug

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

Euripides

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

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hall, Milton

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

Virgil

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Hitopadesa

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Young

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Edward

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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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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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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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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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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Landau, Saul

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique