Motivational Quotes

Learning

You can't learn less.

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Learning

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Twain, Mark

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

King, Doug

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

White, Patrick

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

Seneca

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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

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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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Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Young

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Chesterfield, Lord

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Virgil

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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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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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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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 pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

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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

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