Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Dubos, Rene

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Wooden, John

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Rogers, Will

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.

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

Dubos, Rene

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

King, Doug

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

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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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

11.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Virgil

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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

Young, Edward

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

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

White, Patrick

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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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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Euripides

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The years teach us much the days never knew.