Quotes About Learning

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery. – James Joyce

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

What we do not understand, we do now possess. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete. – G.K. Chesterton

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. – More Doug Larson Quotes

A day spent without learning something is a day wasted. – Anonymous

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning. – Unknown

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -Sydney J. Harris

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank

The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. – Todd Bodett

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. – Albert Einstein

If you have knowledge, let others light their candle at it. – Unknown

What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow. – James Stephens

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut. – Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books, alone. – Horace Quote

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Anonymous

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. – Albert Einstein Quote

It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. – Author Unknown

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverb

Today is yesterday’s pupil. – Benjamin Franklin Quote

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. – Will Rogers

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. – Robert Hutchens

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment. – Lord Ritchie-Calder Quote

Education is not received. It is achieved. – Author Unknown

Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese Proverb

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. – Bill Vaughan

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. – Helen Keller

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. – Albert Einstein

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
- Albert Einstein

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein

….that is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
- Doris Lessing