Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rogers, Will

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

Dubos, Rene

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Waitley, Denis

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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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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

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennis, James

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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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

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

Young, Edward

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.