Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bennis, James

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

Euripides

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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

Buzan, Tony

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

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Virgil

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

King, Doug

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

White, Patrick

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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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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

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Mckay, David O.