Motivational Quotes

Learning

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

- Hillel, Rabbi

Best Quotes about Learning

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Proverb, Latin

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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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

White, Patrick

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennis, James

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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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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 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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

Hazlitt, William

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Euripides

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Wooden, John

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

Kraus, Karl