Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Zinn, Jon Kabat

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, English

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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

Young

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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

Heinlein, Robert

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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Wooden, John

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Albrecht, F.

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

White, Patrick

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Jensen, Eric

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Euripides

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

Virgil

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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.