Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Jensen, Eric

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Proverb, English

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Steinem, Gloria

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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waitley, Denis

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Hitopadesa

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

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

Young

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

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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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.