Motivational Quotes

Learning

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

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

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Young

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Bible

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Bennis, James

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

Carte, L.

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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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

Buzan, Tony

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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All learning has an emotional base.