47 Inspiring learning quotes
“Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.” – William Crawford
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” ― Winston Churchill
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer
“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.” — Howard Gardner
“Education without application is just entertainment.” — Tim Sanders
“Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.” — Tom Colicchio
“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid.” — G. K. Chesterton
“The doer alone learneth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” — African Proverb
“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
“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” — W.B. Yeats
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” — Thomas Carruthers
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” — Voltaire
“Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.” — Ray Congdon
“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
“When we practice something, we are involved in the deliberate repetition of a process with the intention of reaching a specific goal. The words deliberate and intention are key here because they define the difference between actively practicing something and passively learning it.� — Thomas M. Sterner
“When you are not practicing, remember, someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.” — Bill Bradley
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” — Bruce Lee
“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
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” — Socrates
“You cannot open a book without learning something.” — Confucius
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” — Leo Buscaglia
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” — C.S. Lewis
“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.” — Aristotle
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” — Leonardo Da Vinci
“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” — B.B. King
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” — E.M. Forster
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” — Aristotle
“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.” — Anton Chekhov
“A stumble may prevent a fall.” — Thomas Fuller
“Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it. Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a ‘miracle.’” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” — Chinese Proverb
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” — Vernon Howard
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” — Henry Ford
“Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.” — Robert Brault
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” — William A. Ward
“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” — John W. Gardner
“In doing we learn.” — George Herbert
“Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.” — William Glasser
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” — Epictetus
“Education cost money, but then so does ignorance.” — Claus Moser
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” — Carl Rogers
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