Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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

Carte, L.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Dubos, Rene

10.

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.

11.

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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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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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

19.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Steinem, Gloria

25.

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

Albrecht, F.

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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

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

Young

28.

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

Kraus, Karl

29.

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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

32.

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

King, Doug

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

35.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

38.

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

Bible

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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

40.

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

41.

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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

43.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

44.

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

Hitopadesa

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

Twain, Mark

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

Virgil

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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

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bennis, James