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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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

Euripides

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

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

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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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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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hitopadesa

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

George Iles

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

Buzan, Tony

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Young

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dubos, Rene

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

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Ruskin, John

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von