Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Van Buren, Abigail

Best Quotes about Learning

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carte, L.

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

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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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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 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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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Bennis, James

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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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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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

White, Patrick

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

Virgil

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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 loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dubos, Rene

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If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Hall, Milton

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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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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph