70 Powerful Quotes About Learning to Inspire You!

21. “Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.” — William Crawford

22. “If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.” — Howard Gardner

23. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

24. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” — Leonardo da Vinci

25. “Education without application is just entertainment.” — Tim Sanders

26. “I am still learning.” — Michelangelo (age 87)

27. “Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.” — Tom Colicchio

28. “The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.” — Wendell Berry

29. “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” — Claude Bernard

30. “Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data.” — Terry Heick

31. “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

32. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” — Harry S. Truman

33. “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” — Robert A. Heinlein

34. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” — Richard Branson

35. “A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.” — Chinese Proverb

36. “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

37. “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” — Confucius

38. “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

39. “The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” — Antisthenes

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40. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” — Mortimer Adler

41. “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

42. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

43. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

44. “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

45. “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

46. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X

47. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” — William Arthur Ward

48. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy

49. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” — Robert Frost

50. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

51. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — W.B. Yeats

52. “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

53. “Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardour and attended with diligence.” — Abigail Adams

54. “If you are willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” — Anonymous

55. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” — Anonymous

56. “Everything is a learning experience.” — Angus T. Jones

57. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” — Mark Twain

58. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm Forbes

59. “If knowledge is power, then learning is a superpower.” — Jim Kwik

60. “Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

61. “Learn continually. There’s always ‘one more thing’ to learn!” — Steve Jobs

62. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” — Alfred Mercier

63. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” — Margaret Fuller

64. “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” — Mark Twain

65. “The most important attitude that can be found is the desire to go on learning.” — John Dewey

66. “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” — Alan Moore

67. “All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.” — George Whitman

68. “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” — Voltaire

69. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” — Anonymous

70. “The greatest teacher, failure is.” — Yoda