Inspiring Learning Quotes to Ignite Your Passion for Knowledge

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

- W.B. Yeats

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- William Crawford

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I am still learning."

- Michelangelo

"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

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Confucius

"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

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

- Mortimer Adler

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Malcolm X

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

- W.B. Yeats

"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardour and attended with diligence."

- Abigail Adams

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Mark Twain

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

- John Dewey

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

- Phil Collins

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- BB King

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

- Henry Ford

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

- Albert Einstein

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

- Peter Drucker

"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

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

- Socrates

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Francis Bacon

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

- BB King

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

- Warren Buffett

"I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."

- Walt Disney

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

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

- Bill Vaughan

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

- Plutarch

"In my youth I had three teachers:sanctuaries, temples, and monasteries.In my adulthood I had three professors:knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. In my youth I had three teachers:truth, intellect, and intuition.In my adulthood I had three professors:practice, discipline, and willpower. In my youth I had three teachers:conscience, reality, and experience.In my adulthood I had three professors:pain, hardship, and tragedies. In my youth I had three teachers:the past, the present, and the future.In my adulthood I had three professors:the world, the heavens, and the universe. In my youth I had three teachers:friends, enemies, and books.In my adulthood I had three professors:God, nature, and life."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Leo Buscaglia

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who stays learning stays young."

- Henry Ford

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Aristotle

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn."

- Phil Collins

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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it."

- Confucius

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

- Herbert Spencer

"Education and work are the levers to uplift a people."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Howard Gardner

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Claude Bernard

"Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data."

- Terry Heick

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Sydney J. Harris

"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

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

- William Arthur Ward

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"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

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Jim Kwik

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

- Alfred Mercier

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Alan Moore

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

- George Whitman

"Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning."

- Anton Chekhov

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

- Plutarch

"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

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

- Antisthenes

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

- Voltaire

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"Education without application is just entertainment."

- Tim Sanders

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

- Lloyd Alexander

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

- Tom Colicchio

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

- Robert Frost

"A learning curve is essential to growth."

- Tammy Bjelland

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives."

- Sylvia Matthews Burwell

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

"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

"I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions."

- Lou Holtz

"I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."

- Natalie Portman

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

- Wendell Berry

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The greatest teacher, failure is."

- Yoda

"I grow old learning something new every day."

- Solon

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

- Plato

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Everything is a learning experience."

- Angus T. Jones

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."

- E. E. Cummings

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

- Margaret Mead

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."

- Denis Waitley

"It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual."

- Allen Klein

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

- Earl Nightingale

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

- Douglas Adams

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

- Gloria Steinem

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."

- George S. Patton

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

- Vince Lombardi

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

- Lucille Ball

"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."

- Charles M. Schulz

"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."

- Jack Nicholson

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."

- Fred Astaire

"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."

- Angelina Jolie

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

"If you are willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."

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

"A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life."