Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Hall, Milton

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Landau, Saul

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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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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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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

Virgil

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Albrecht, F.

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Bennis, James

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

Euripides

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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Carte, L.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Hitopadesa

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King, Doug

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

Proverb, English

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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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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis