Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Dubos, Rene

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Hall, Milton

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Virgil

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

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

10.

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

11.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

14.

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Wooden, John

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

19.

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 one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

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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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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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

King, Doug

24.

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

White, Patrick

25.

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

Bible

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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

27.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

28.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Seneca

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

Confucius

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

Euripides

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Dubos, Rene

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.