Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Hall, Milton

Best Quotes about Learning

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Steinem, Gloria

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Kraus, Karl

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

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

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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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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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 example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Young, Edward

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

Virgil

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

Lessing, Doris

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

George Iles

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.