Motivational Quotes

Learning

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Mckay, David O.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

George Iles

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

Bennis, James

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Virgil

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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King, Doug

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Albrecht, F.

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Young

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert