Inspirational Quotes on Learning

 

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.

Baruch Spinoza 

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

Roy T. Bennett 

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

Howard Gardner 

It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. 

Albert Einstein 

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 

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln 

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Mark Twain 

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch 

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead. 

Jack Nicholson 

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Henry Huxley 

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Norman Vincent Peale 

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Henry Ford 

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein 

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

 Bruce Lee 

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. 

John F. Kennedy 

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Rose Kennedy 

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning are where the miracle process all begins.

Jim Rohn 

Knowledge, which is acquired under compulsion, obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato 

A teacher makes himself progressively unnecessary. 

Thomas Carruthers 

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Edmund Burke 

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Brad Henry 

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia 

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Leo Buscaglia 

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 

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. 

Plato 

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.  

Winston Churchill 

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.  

George Carlin 

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.  

Jim Henson 

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. 

Stanley Kubrick 

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 

Whoso neglects to learn in his youth, loses the past, and is dead for the future.  

Euripides 

Studying without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.  

Leonardo da Vinci 

Instruction does much, but encouragement is everything. 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.  

Natalie Portman 

A man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy thinking habits.

 Albert Einstein 

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.  

Leonardo da Vinci 

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.  

Socrates 

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.  

Herbert Spencer 

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.  

Washington Irving 

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.  

Mahatma Gandhi 

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. 

Mahatma Gandhi 

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.  

Albert Einstein 

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.  

Edsger Dijkstra 

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.  

Benjamin Franklin 

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. 

 Dr. Seuss 

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 

You cannot open a book without learning something. 

 Confucius 

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.  

Confucius 

The more I read, the more I acquire, and the more certain I am that I know nothing.  

Voltaire 

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.  

Voltaire 

Education without application is just entertainment.  

Tim Sanders 

I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

 Neil deGrasse Tyson 

Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.  

Roy T. Bennett 

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.  

Roy T. Bennett 

Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter. 

Roy T. Bennett 

Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.

 Roy T. Bennett 

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward. 

Roy T. Bennett 

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them. 

Joe Abercrombie 

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.  

B.B. King 

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. 

Joseph Joubert 

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. 

 Richard Branson 

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

 Ernest Hemingway 

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

 Abigail Adams 

If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven’t learned anything.  

Muhammad Ali 

Anyone who isn't embarrassed by who they were last year probably isn't learning enough. 

Alain de Botton 

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience, and being persistent.  

Billy Graham 

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.  

Eric Hoffer 

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know anything. I mean, that's my life lesson. 

Dwayne Johnson 

And I believe that the best learning process for any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. 

Wole Soyinka 

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.  

Oscar Wilde 

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or in the same way.  

George Evans 

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all actual knowledge. 

David Hume 

Learning never exhausts the mind. 

Leonardo da Vinci 

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. 

Criss Jami 

Much learning does not teach understanding. 

Heraclitus 

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.  

Anton Chekhov 

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

Doris Lessing 

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.  

Bruce Lee 

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. 

Dan Brown 

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.  

Aristotle 

In learning, you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.  

Phil Collins 

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.  

Leonardo da Vinci 

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. 

Shannon L. Alder 

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. 

 Malcolm X 

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.  

Richard Feynmann 

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. 

 Jeremiah Say 

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. 

 John W. Gardner 

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.  

Anthony J. D’Angelo 

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.  

Tony Robbins 

I am a woman in the process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, and every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.  

Oprah Winfrey 

I am always doing that which I cannot do, so that I may learn how to do it.  

Pablo Picasso 

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.  

Isaac Asimov 

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.  

Denis Waitley 

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.  

Ray Congdon 

Study the past if you would define the future. 

 Confucius 

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.  

Martin Luther King Jr.