Inspiring Educational Quotes to Ignite Your Passion for Learning

"Education is the foundation of all we do in life. It shapes who we are and what we aspire to be."

- Julie Payette

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

- BB King

"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

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

- George Washington Carver

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Malcolm Forbes

"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."

- Christine Gregoire

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

- Albert Einstein

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

- Allan Bloom

"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."

- Shakuntala Devi

"The more you learn, the more you earn."

- Warren Buffett

"Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life."

- Brad Henry

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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.

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world for the better."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Once you stop learning, you start dying."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dr. Seuss

"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."

- Paul Halmos

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

- Leo Buscaglia

"When girls become educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous."

- Michelle Obama

"The ability to read, write, and analyze; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in that door and take your seat at that table—all of that starts with education."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

"Be curious, not judgmental."

- Walt Whitman

"I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- W.B. Yeats

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."

- BB King

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

- Helen Keller

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"What did you learn? is always the first and best question."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible.’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way."

- George Evans

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul."

- Muriel Spark

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new."

- Barack Obama

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Abigail Adams

"How wonderful that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday."

- Misty Copeland

"The more risks you allow your children to take, the better they learn to look after themselves."

- Roald Dahl

"Learn by practice."

- Martha Graham

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

- Auguste Rodin

"Education is everything—education is your power; education is your way in life for whatever you want to do."

- Ciara

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

- Pablo Picasso

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"I am still learning."

- Michelangelo

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

- William Crawford

"Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world."

- Lois Lowry

"Education must not simply teach work; it must teach life."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"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.

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

- Socrates

"Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything."

- George Carlin

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."

- William Plomer

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."

- Pablo Picasso

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

- Edward de Bono

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world."

- Albert Einstein

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

"We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’"

- C.S. Lewis

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

- Walter Winchell

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

- John Henry Newman

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory."

- Les Brown

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

- Dan Reeves

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Every artist was first an amateur."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

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

- Plutarch

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- John Dewey

"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Kofi Annan

"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."

- Confucius

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Nelson Mandela

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Teachers are the one and only people who save nations."

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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

- John F. Kennedy

"Education must not simply teach work, it must teach Life."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

- Horace Mann

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

- Marvin Minsky

"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."

- Sidney Hook

"Education is the key which will unlock the door of opportunity for you."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

- Maya Angelou

"To teach is to learn twice."

- Joseph Joubert

"An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only great curiosity but great fulfillment."

- David Attenborough

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

- Henry Ford

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

- G.K. Chesterton

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the noblest; Second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest."

- Confucius

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."

- Eartha Kitt

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

- Victor Hugo

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Learning techniques is the key."

- Tom Colicchio

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

- Abigail Adams

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Vernon Howard

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

- Epictetus

"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

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

- Aristotle

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

- Voltaire

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."

- John Holt

"It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time—for we are bound by that—but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time."

- T.S. Eliot

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Adams

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

- Isaac Asimov

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

- Aristotle

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

- Howard Gardner

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark van Doren

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

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

- Malcolm X

"Education is one thing no one can take away from you."

- Elin Nordegren

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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

- Sydney J. Harris

"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.

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- George Washington Carver

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

- Maya Angelou

"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Margaret Mead

"Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

- Confucius

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island."

- Walt Disney

"If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it."

- Toni Morrison

"The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, read, read, read."

- Ernest Gaines

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant."

- Edward Everett

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."

- Ernest Dimnet

"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."

- David Bowie

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences."

- Sylvia Plath

"Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data."

- Terry Heick

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

"Education is a continual process. It’s like a bicycle…if you don’t pedal, you don’t go forward."

- George Weah

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."

- Bill Vaughan

"A learning curve is essential to growth."

- Tammy Bjelland

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Pablo Picasso

"Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."

- Agnes Repplier

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

- Michel Legrand

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

- Conrad Hall

"Education is a continual process, it’s like a bicycle… If you don’t pedal you don’t go forward."

- George Weah

"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster."

- Weston H. Agor

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

- Winston Churchill

"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way."

- George Evans

"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."

- Claude Bernard

"What did you learn? is always first and best question."

- Oprah Winfrey

"With every mistake, we must surely be learning."

- George Harrison

"The learning process continues until the day you die."

- Kirk Douglas

"A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read."

- Mark Twain

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

- Herbert Spencer

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

- George Santayana

"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."

- Steve Irwin

"All real education is the architecture of the soul."

- William Bennett

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

- Bill Nye

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

- Helen Keller

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

- Norman Cousins

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

- John Ruskin

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."

- Horace Mann

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

- Daniel J. Boorstin

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated."

- Frederick William Robertson

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

- Robert Lewin

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

- Henry Ford

"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl W. Buehner

"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard."

- Eliphas Levi

"Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

- Ezra Pound

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

- Publilius Syrus

"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."

- Gwendolyn Brooks

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

- William Morris

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."

- Nancy Astor

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

- Albert Einstein

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Robert Frost

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word."

- Margaret Atwood

"You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven."

- Edward de Bono

"The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace."

- Jhumpa Lahiri

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

- Buddha

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

- William Butler Yeats

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

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

"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back."

"Personal growth is about progress, not perfection."

"Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there."

- Unknown

"You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing."

"Resilience is not a single trait but a combination of many traits."

"Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness."