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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Young

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

King, Doug

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

Young, Edward

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

Buzan, Tony

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Virgil

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

Bennis, James

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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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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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 is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene