Motivational Quotes

Learning

You can't learn less.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Learning

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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

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

Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Buzan, Tony

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hall, Milton

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

Dubos, Rene

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Confucius

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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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