Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

George Iles

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Confucius

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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

White, Patrick

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

Young, Edward

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, English

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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 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 grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards