Quotes about learning

"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

Adams, Abigail on learning
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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. on learning
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"It is always in season for old men to learn."

Aeschylus on learning
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"There is no more beautiful life than that of a student."

Albrecht, F. on learning   

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson on learning
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"There is no time of life past learning something."

Ambrose, St. on learning
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"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."

Bacon, Francis on learning   

"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."

Bacon, Francis on learning   

"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after."

Baker, Newton D. on learning
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"Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade."

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

Bible on learning   

"Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

Bierce, Ambrose on learning   

"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic."

Blount, Roy Jr. on learning   

"Be quick to learn and wise to know."

Burns, George on learning   

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

Buzan, Tony on learning
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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 on learning   

"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life."

Byrne, Robert on learning   

"With just enough of learning to misquote."

Byron, Lord on learning   

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

Carte, L. on learning
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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 on learning   

"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 on learning   

"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 on learning
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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 on learning   

"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 on learning   

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

Churchill, Winston on learning
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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. on learning
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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 on learning
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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 on learning   

"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 on learning
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"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on learning
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"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on learning
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"Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival."

Deming, W. Edwards on learning
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"A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."

Disraeli, Benjamin on learning   

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."

Disraeli, Benjamin on learning   

"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. on learning   

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on learning   

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

Dubos, Rene on learning   

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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