Learning Quotes

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Marston Bates

Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.

Wernher von Braun

Learning is remembering what you’re interested in.

Saul Wurman

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

Martin Fisher

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

Socrates

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

Einstein

If you find something you’re interested in it connects to everything.

Saul Wurman

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

Maya Angelou

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

Albert Einstein

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

Zig Ziglar

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.

Vernon Howard

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Ray Bradbury

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Doug Larson

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Auguste Rodin

Humility is the doorway to truth and clarity of objectives… it’s the doorway to learning.

Wynton Marsalis

The goal of all learning is action, not knowledge.

John C Maxwell

I never lose. I either win or learn.

Nelson Mandela

The more you learn, the more you earn.

Warren Buffett

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

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Gandhi

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Francis Bacon

Play is the highest form of research.

Einstein

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Helen Keller

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Bob Talber

Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Jim Henson

The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice.

James Clear

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.

John C Maxwell

Live, love, learn, leave a legacy.

Stephen R Covey

Only the autodidacts are free.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

William Haley

I am still learning.

Michelangelo

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Abraham Lincoln

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Antisthenes

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Success is a poor teacher.

Robert Kiyosaki

Only the educated are free.

Epictetus

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

Henry Ward Beecher

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

Tom Stoppard

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Joseph Addison

By learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions, where in body he cannot come.

Francis Bacon

The learned man has always riches within himself.

Phaedrus

Live and learn.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

John C Maxwell

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

Joe Abercrombie

Do something with what you learn.... Reading, listening and learning is pointless without doing, applying, sharing or implementing.

Maarten Albarda

The three foundations of learning are seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.

Catherall

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

John Lubbock

To be silent oft is to learn.

Edward Counsel

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

Dr Seuss

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

George Pope Morris

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

George Crabbe

Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

Aeschylus

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

To learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general.

Aristotle

The learning which is got by one's own observation and experience, is as far beyond that which is got by precept, as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by a map.

J Tillinghast

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

La Harpe

The light of learning should be the light of truth. It should illumine the darkness of error, and a certain beacon to conduct us through the concealed, the rough, and intricate ways of the world.

Acton

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

John Locke

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Isaac Asimov

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,

And all the sweet serenity of books

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Anthony Trollope

Learning means change.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

Elias Canetti

Laughter is no enemy to learning

Walt Disney

Learning is the making of meaning.

Robert Kegan

Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no learning without remembering.

Socrates

The best learning I had came from teaching.

Corrie Ten Boom

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

James Garner

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Cicero

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Handy

Learning is discovering that something is possible.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

Roger Schank

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Einstein

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Zadie Smith

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Emma Goldman

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

Jim Rohn

They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Goethe

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Seneca

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Emerson

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Mark Twain

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

Dwight D Eisenhower

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Einstein

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Richard Branson

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Picasso

To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert

To learn one must be humble.

James Joyce

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

When one teaches, two learn.

Robert A Heinlein