30 of the Best Quotes About Learning

Are you an educator that is also a fan of quotes? If so, you will certainly like what we have in store for you in this today. We plan to list 30 of our favorite quotes about learning in the hopes that it will help you on your journey to becoming the best teacher that you can be. Without further ado, let’s begin.

  1. “Education without application is just entertainment.”
    — Tim Sanders
  2. “I am still learning.”
    — Michelangelo
  3. “Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.”
    — Tom Colicchio
  4. “Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.”
    — William Crawford
  5. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    — Leonardo da Vinci
  6. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
    — Herbert Spencer
  7. “If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”
    — Howard Gardner
  8. “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid.”
    — G. K. Chesterton
  9. “The doer alone learneth.”
    — Friedrich Nietzsche
  10. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
    — African Proverb
  11. “A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.”
    — Eric Hoffer
  12. “Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.”
    — Ray Congdon
  13. “The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
    — Josh Waitzkin
  14. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
  15. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
  16. “Change is the end result of all true learning.”
    ― Leo Buscaglia
  17. “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. “
    — Abraham Lincoln
  18. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”
    — Chinese Proverb
  19. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.”
    — Vernon Howard
  20. “Action comes about if and only if we find a discrepancy between what we are experiencing and what we want to experience.”
    —Philip J. Runkel
  21. “I realized that becoming a master of karate was not about learning 4,000 moves but about doing just a handful of moves 4,000 times.”
    — Chet Holmes
  22. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”
    — Henry Ford
  23. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
    — Benjamin Franklin
  24. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
    — Carl Rogers
  25. “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.”
    — W.B. Yeats
  26. “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
    — Thomas Carruthers
  27. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
  28. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
    ― Abigail Adams
  29. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
    ― B.B. King
  30. “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    ― E.M. Forster
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