Quotes About Learning

Learing and Education Quotes

Here are many quotes to help motivate you to continue learning in life. Whether you are studying from home through online universities or going back to school for an MBA, these are sure to be helpful to any student.

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

I don’t sing a song unless I feel it. The song don’t tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I’m doing. – Ray Charles

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

The one who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. – Anonymous

It isn’t how little you know that matters, but how anxious you are to learn. – C. Newland

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