Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Seneca

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

12.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

24.

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

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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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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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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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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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

Ruskin, John