Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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.

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

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

Virgil

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

Doris Lessing

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

11.

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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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

White, Patrick

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

Proverb, English

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

George Iles

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

King, Doug

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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 one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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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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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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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 a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

34.

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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

38.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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