Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Rogers, Will

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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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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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

Virgil

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Euripides

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

Young, Edward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Wooden, John

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

Bennis, James

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

George Iles

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.