Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Learning

Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

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

Bennis, James

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Virgil

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

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

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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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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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.