Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Heinlein, Robert

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Bible

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

Young

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Twain, Mark

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

Albrecht, F.

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Seneca

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Euripides

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Young, Edward

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

Virgil

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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 purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Confucius

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

Dubos, Rene