Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Learning

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Waitley, Denis

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Young

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wooden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Virgil

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

Bennis, James

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato