Inspirational Learning Quotes
If you are looking for ways to improve your life, these inspirational learning quotes are a great place to start.
There are many ways to learn, from schools and universities to independent studies to life experiences. But no matter how it’s done, it’s important to commit to lifelong learning. These quotes can help keep you motivated to learn new things throughout your life.
1. Learning quotes about life
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Henry Ford
If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
About growth
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
About mindset
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
About mistakes
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.
Joe Abercrombie
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson
About new things
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
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.
Brian Tracy
Learning quotes about wisdom
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton Chekhov
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
About reading
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.
Virginia Woolf
Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
George Carlin
A man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius
2. Lifelong learning quotes
Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Henry Ford
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
About learning by doing
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education without application is just entertainment.
Tim Sanders
To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.
Roy T. Bennett
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
Frank Herbert
About happiness
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
3. Inspirational learning quotes
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
There is divine beauty in learning. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.
Elie Wiesel
Never stop learning and never stop thinking and asking, ‘Why not?’
Steven Levi
If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.
Zig Ziglar
Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.
Claire Fagan
Motivational sayings
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein
You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
4. Learning quotes for kids
Here is a selection of the best learning quotes for children from preschool to kindergarten to elementary students and beyond.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss
If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs.
Nicolette Sowder
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Richard Feynmann
5. Learning quotes for students
Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.
William Crawford
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
The expert in anything was once a beginner.
Unknown
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
George Evans
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.
Tom Colicchio
One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.
Earl Nightingale
Learning quotes for teachers
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
Maya Angelou
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places that they could not imagine.
Mirza Yawar Baig
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
More great teacher quotes and sayings.
For school and classroom
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Phil Collins
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
Plato
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest.
William Shakespeare
About education
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
Howard Gardner
Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
Gandhi
Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing.
Madeline Hunter
6. Learning quotes for business
Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels — training and development that never stops.
Peter Drucker
To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.
Bertrand Russell
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch
For leaders
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
Warren Bennis
Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data.
Terry Heick
You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.
Seymour Papert
That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning quotes for work
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Martin Fisher
Learning is unifying seemingly divergent ideas and data.
Terry Heick
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Harry S Truman
Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing ourselves.
Paul Solarz
Learning can emerge as spontaneous order at the edge of chaos.
Sugata Mitra
For adults
If knowledge is a power, then learning is a superpower.
Jim Kwik
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein
The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
Wendell Berry
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
Edmund Burke
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
About goals
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.
Confucius
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Funny learning quotes
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Mark Twain
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E.M. Forster
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams
We are all failures — at least the best of us are.
J.M. Barrie
8. Short learning quotes
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
He who laughs most, learns best.
John Cleese
All learning has an emotional base.
Plato
Even the genius asks questions.
Tupac Shakur
Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
I am still learning.
Michelangelo
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James
Dialogue cannot exist without humility.
Paulo Freire
We learn from failure, not from success!
Bram Stoker
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
Development is a series of rebirths.
Maria Montessori
9. Famous learning quotes
Ideas without action aren’t ideas. They’re regrets.
Steve Jobs
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
Abraham Lincoln
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or could not learn.
Winston Churchill
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Learning quotes from artists
The knowledge of all things is possible.
Leonardo da Vinci
I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci
From scientists
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert Einstein
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
From philosophers
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Sophocles
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Aristotle
Knowledge, which is acquired under compulsion, obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.
Aristotle
From books and literature
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
James Joyce, Ulysses
From authors and poets
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
John Updike
The only things you learn are the things you tame.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
From proverbs
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese proverb
A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.
Chinese proverb
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By Greg Johnson | Published 6/2/2023
