Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

- Deming, W. Edwards

Best Quotes about Learning

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

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

Proverb, English

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Smith, Lillian

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

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

Wooden, John

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

20.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

21.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

24.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

36.

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

Seneca

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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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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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

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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