Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Learning

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

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, English

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

Dubos, Rene

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Confucius

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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

Euripides

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 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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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Virgil