Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Iles

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Bennis, James

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Euripides

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

King, Doug

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Albrecht, F.

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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.

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carte, L.