Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Ruskin, John

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Young

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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

Virgil

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Hall, Milton

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

King, Doug

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Baker, Newton D.

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Euripides

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

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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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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