Motivational Quotes

Learning

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

- Falkland, Lucius C.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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

Virgil

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

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

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

Seneca

10.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

11.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Patrick

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Young

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wooden, John

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 learn by teaching.

Proverb

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That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Carte, L.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

George Iles

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Waitley, Denis

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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