123 Inspiring Education Quotes to Motivate Lifelong Learning

"Education in the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"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

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"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 only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."

- Carl Rogers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

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

- Dr. Seuss

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

- Alvin Toffler

"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

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

- Kofi Annan

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- BB King

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

- Margaret Mead

"The most important attitude that can be found is the desire to go on learning."

- John Dewey

"Learning is a lifelong process."

- Peter Drucker

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

- Doris Lessing

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

- Allan Bloom

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."

- Mortimer Adler

"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."

- Frank Herbert

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."

- George Washington Carver

"Education's purpose is to replace and empty mind with an open one."

- Malcom Forbes

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm Forbes

"There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

- Albert Einstein

"If knowledge is power, then learning is a superpower."

- Jim Kwik

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

- Confucius

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

- Albert Einstein

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

- Mark Twain

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

- Marvin Minsky

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

- William Arthur Ward

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

- John F. Kennedy

"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."

- Claude Bernard

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

- Anatole France

"The only real failure in life is one not learned from."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

- Daniel J. Boorstin

"Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work."

- William Crawford

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Education is freedom."

- Paulo Freire

"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

"Learn continually. There's always 'one more thing' to learn!"

- Steve Jobs

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Helen Keller

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius."

- Michael J. Gelb

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

- Maimonides

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

- Herbert Spencer

"The greatest teacher, failure is."

- Yoda

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

- Alfred Mercier

"If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance."

- Howard Gardner

"One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do."

- Earl Nightingale

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

- Edmund Burke

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Education cost money, but then so does ignorance."

- Claus Moser

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- Aristotle

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."

- Thomas Paine

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

- G.K. Chesterton

"I am still learning."

- Michelangelo

"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."

- Alan Moore

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

- Bill Nye

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

- Richard Branson

"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

"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

- E. M. Forster

"You are always a student, never a master. You have keep moving forward."

- Conrad Hall

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

- C. S. Lewis

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."

- George Whitman

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data."

- Terry Heick

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

- Antisthenes

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"The mere imparting of information is not education."

- Carter G. Woodson

"Education without application is just entertainment."

- Tim Sanders

"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

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

- Richard Feynman

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

- Edward Everett

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

- Joseph Addison

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"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

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

- Robert Frost

"Good questions outrank easy answers."

- Paul Samuelson

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is better to learn late than never."

- Publilius Syrus

"Everything is a learning experience."

- Angus T. Jones

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

- Erich Fromm

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

- William Godwin

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

- Voltaire

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

- Robert Lee Frost

"The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly."

- Wendell Berry

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

- Oscar Wilde

"Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key."

- Tom Colicchio

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."