Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

Best Quotes about Learning

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Young

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Doris Lessing

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

Baker, Newton D.

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

George Iles

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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

Carte, L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rogers, Will

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

Young, Edward

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Confucius

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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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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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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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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. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Virgil

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Buzan, Tony

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

King, Doug

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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