Inspiring Quotes on Learning to Inspire You to Keep Learning

Inspiring Quotes on Learning

  • “I am still learning.” —Michelangelo
  • “The doer alone learneth.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Learning never exhausts the mind.” —Leonardo da Vinci
  • “Education without application is just entertainment.” —Tim Sanders
  • “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” —African Proverb
  • “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” —Voltaire
  • “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” —John F. Kennedy
  • “Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.” —William Crawford
  • “Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.” —Tom Colicchio
  • “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” —Thomas Carruthers
  • “Change is the end result of all true learning.” ―Leo Buscaglia
  • “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” —Herbert Spencer
  • “Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.” —Ray Congdon
  • “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” —Thomas H. Huxley
  • “If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.” —Howard Gardner
  • “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” —B.B. King
  • “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” —Winston Churchill
  • “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” —W.B. Yeats
  • “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” —B.B. King
  • “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” —Leonardo da Vinci
  • “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” —E.M. Forster
  • “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” —Vernon Howard
  • “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” —Aristotle
  • “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” —Henry Ford
  • “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Abraham Lincoln
  • “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” —Carl Rogers
  • “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” —Mark Twain
  • “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” —Abigail Adams
  • “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” —Doris Lessing
  • “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” —Bruce Lee
  • “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” —Confucius
  • “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realizes, the less I know.” —Michel Legrand
  • “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid.” —G. K. Chesterton
  • “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” —Dr. Seus
  • “Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.” —Confucius
  • “Action comes about if and only if we find a discrepancy between what we are experiencing and what we want to experience.”—Philip J. Runkel
  • “I realized that becoming a master of karate was not about learning 4,000 moves but about doing just a handful of moves 4,000 times.” —Chet Holmes
  • “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
  • “A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.” —Eric Hoffer
  • “The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.” —Josh Waitzkin
  • “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.” —Brain Tracy

Learning Quotes and Sayings

  • “All learning has an emotional base.” —Plato
  • “A penny for your thoughts.” —Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
  • “Learn as if you were to live forever.”
  • “The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.” —John Maxwell
  • “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” —Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
  • “Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.” —W. Edwards Deming
  • “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” —Bill Gates
  • “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
  • “Never mistake a single mistake with a final mistake.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
  • “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” —Robert A. Heinlein
  • “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” —Mark Twain
  • “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” —Daniel Boorstin
  • “I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” —Eartha Kitt
  • “Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” —Jim Rohn
  • “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “Developing a desire to learn is the kindling point of all classroom achievement.” —Robert John Meehan
  • “Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” —George Evans
  • “Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” —Euripides
  • “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” —Richard Branson
  • “The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” —Antisthenes
  • “The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.” —Henry S. Haskins
  • “If learning is an act of exploration, then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime.” —Anonymous
  • “If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” —Mark Twain
  • “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” —Albert Einstein
  • “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” —Confucius
  • “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” —Mortimer Adler
  • “What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.” —Martina Horner
  • “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
  • “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” —Lloyd Alexander
  • “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.”
  • “A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.” —Chinese Proverb – (thanks to Alice Fonda-Marsland)
  • “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” —Sarah Caldwell
  • “To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.” —Benjamin Jowett
  • “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
  • “If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” —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
  • “Shall I tell you a secret of a true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point and in that I learn from him.”
  • “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
  • “Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real – all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.” —Geoff Mulgan
  • “Children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to distinguish learning from fun. They keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun.” —Glenn Doman
  • “Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.” —Thomas Szasz
  • “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
  • “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
  • “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti