Learning is a life-long process for everyone and happens in our everyday lives. School may have taught us a lot of things, but there’s still a lot more to learn from real life. So let your inquisitive mind know more as you grow with these 172 quotes about learning.
Quotes About Learning
1. When one starts learning he opens doors to a new world full of hope and promise. – M. K. Soni
2. Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. – Jim Rohn
3. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. – Mortimer Adler
4. Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams
5. 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
6. Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. – W. Edwards Deming
7. Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci
8. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. – Confucius
9. There is no learning without pain. – Shane Parrish
10. Value learning above everything else. This will lead you to all the right choices. – Robert Greene
11. Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. – Robert Brault
12. Learning does not occur in “steps”. It occurs in whole pieces. It does not occur in progressive increments. It occurs in spontaneous bursts. – Kapil Gupta
13. Learning is the ability to adapt to changing environments. With the world changing so fast, your learning must speed up. – Robert T. Kiyosaki
14. Not understanding is the beginning of learning. Confusion is a reflection of growth. Keep moving forward. – Robin Sharma
15. When you stop learning, you stop growing. Don’t be at the same place next year as you are right now. – Joel Osteen
16. Education is something that is done to you. Learning is something you do for yourself. – Joi Ito
17. Learning requires what scientists call “desirable difficulty”. The more active the learning process, the better your comprehension and recall. – Susan Cain
18. It’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters. – Norton Juster
19. A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. – Sophocles
20. Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. – Aristotle
21. Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation. – Ivan Illich
22. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. – Paulo Coelho
23. One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. – Frank Herbert
24. I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it. – Homer Hickam
25. Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has. – Freya Stark
26. Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained. – Philo of Alexandria
27. Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family. – Rosie Thomas
28. Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. – Peter M. Senge
29. The deepest learning directs your thinking. The deepest thinking directs your learning. – J. Earp
30. Learning never stops till the very end of life’s existence from whoever and at whatever time or situations. – Santosh Kalwar
31. We learn by doing because we do by learning. – Saji Ijiyemi
32. In learning from failure, there are stepping stones for success. – Zechariah Barrett
33. Don’t stop learning because life doesn’t stop teaching. – Oscar Auliq-Ice
34. Learning is the coherent action of the present with the future. – Alan Maiccon
35. Continuously learning, and learning is the core principle and pursuit of life since it works as an effective antidote therapy for the ego-feeling. – Ehsan Sehgal
36. Continuous learning is nothing without continuous doing. – Richie Norton
37. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get. – L Frank Baum
38. Fear diminishes when learning is the focus. – M. Beth Page
39. Do you know what learning gives you? The ability to make use of sources. – Andrzej Sapkowski
40. Learning is borrowed knowledge; genius is knowledge innate. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
41. Let your mind go to great heights. Keep learning. Every single day. – Michael Broeckhuyzen
42. You never stop learning. There is so much to see and do, so much to live for, that you can’t possibly learn it all in a single lifetime. – Kailin Gow
43. Learning is rooted in repetition and convexity, meaning that the reading of a single text twice is more profitable than reading two different things once. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
44. The greatest enemy of learning is knowing. – John C. Maxwell
45. Learning is its own reward. Nothing I can say is better than that. – Michael S. Hart
46. The key to open-up for learning is practicing the learning, the fear of failure stops us from practicing the new learning, but the real reason of failure is not practicing, but pretending that you have learned it. – Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
47. Ignorance is curable. Refusing to learn is not. – E. Michael Helms
48. Learning isn’t done to you; it’s something you do. – Andy Hunt
49. The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge. – Ben Bova
50. Learning gives you knowledge and knowledge gives you the yearning for more. Never stop learning because life teaches us in a daily basis. – Euginia Herlihy
51. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
52. Learning multiplies by the no. of people. – Gayatri Gadre
53. Learning takes place everyday, everywhere, and everytime. What you say is what you have learnt unless you’re conscious and pretending. Think and learn, there is strength and life in the spoken words. – Osunsakin Adewale
54. In chaos is where learning happens the most. – Tarun Sharma
55. Find the words that cause reflection in you. That is where true learning begins. – Jeffrey G. Duarte
56. Real learning begins outside the classroom. – Lailah Gifty Akita
57. To forbid mistakes is to forbid learning. – Ted Agon
58. Nobody makes a bad choice intentionally; it was the best choice at that time. There is only learning to post that. – Harrish Sairaman
59. Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds. – Pearl Zhu
60. It’s written that learning is more precious than rubies, more lasting than gold. Rubies may be lost and gold stolen, but that which you learn is yours forever. – Erica Silverman
61. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
62. You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things. – Asa Hutchinson
63. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. – Benjamin Disraeli
64. Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core. – Sugata Mitra
65. A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. – Frederick Douglass
66. Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. – Lyndon B. Johnson
67. No one ever said learning was to be easy, but it’s part of the process of evolving as a human being, and we all have to go through it. When I look back, I see that each difficult time brought an important lesson. And I prefer to look at it with gratitude because I wouldn’t be who I am today if I haven’t gone through it all. – Gisele Bundchen
68. Dont give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning. – Hidetaka Miyazaki
69. Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
70. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. – Albert Einstein
71. Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. – William Arthur Ward
72. The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. – B. B. King
73. Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. – Phil Crosby
74. Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. – King Solomon
75. There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose. – Charles M. Schwab
76. There’s no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in. – Kylie Minogue
77. As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things. – Kapil Dev
78. As long as you live, keep learning how to live. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
79. Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. – John Hersey
80. Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests. – Ken Robinson
81. Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but also capable of succeeding. – Robert John Meehan
82. 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; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. – Thomas Szasz
83. What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. – Martina Horner
84. It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. – Claude Bernard
85. Change is the end result of all true learning. – Leo Buscaglia
86. 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
87. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing
88. Learning is a never-ending process and it is important that we stay updated at all times. – James Nelson
89. Never stop learning and never stop thinking and asking, “why not?” – Steven Levi
90. You can know ten things by learning one. – Japanese Proverb
91. Learning allows for more wisdom and knowledge. Additional knowledge about any situation increases the strength of an opinion. – Faye Horton
92. Learning is what got us this far and what will take us wherever we’re going. – John Penberthy
93. Learning is finding out what you already know. – Richard Bach
94. If learning is like a sponge, don’t ever stop soaking it up. Never stop learning. – Catherine Pulsifer
95. Learning how to learn is one of the best skills you can develop. The faster you learn things, the faster you increase your value, and the more time you ultimately free up for the application of things learned. – Noel N
96. Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. – Cha’n Master Mingjiao
97. Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese proverb
98. The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. – David Hume
99. 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
100. One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. – John W. Gardner
101. Almost anything can become a learning experience if there is enough caring involved. – Mary MacCracken
102. 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
103. Responsibility for the learning belongs to the student, regardless of age. – Robert Martin
104. The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning. It should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer
105. Once you have learned to ask questions – relevant and appropriate and substantial questions – you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know. – Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
106. Learning makes a man fit company for himself. – Thomas Fuller
107. I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. – Eartha Kitt
108. In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. – Phil Collins
109. Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning. – Anton Chekhov
110. Life is a learning experience, only if you learn. – Yogi Berra
111. Learning is not a spectator sport. – D. Blocher
112. All learning has an emotional base. – Plato
113. Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself. – Robert Heinlein
114. Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. – Denis Waitley
115. Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. – Brian Tracy
116. Learning means change and change is usually difficult. – Herman L Glaess
117. I find learning to be the most valuable of all the treasures in the world. It’s priceless. – Jody Hedlund
118. Feeling your way to knowledge rather than thinking your way, often results in better learning. – Sam Owen
119. Learning never ends, we may stop learning but life will keep teaching us something on each and every stage. – Sandy Raman
120. Learning is as much an attitude as it is an activity. – Frank Sonnenberg
121. Education is a system. Learning is an ongoing every day process. – Mommy Moo Moo
122. Successes don’t teach you much, but mistakes? That’s a learning situation. – Lyle Link
123. The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result. – Roshan Sharma
124. In order for knowledge to be of value, there must be an internal process of understanding how that knowledge applies to reality. Furthermore, that understanding must be translated into a corresponding change of behavior. This is the process of learning. Learning is the process of adapting knowledge and experience into a change of behavior. – C W Newman
125. Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things. – Lev S. Vygotsky
126. Learning is easy; misunderstanding makes it complex! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
127. Awareness is learning implemented. – Tasneem Hameed
128. Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp. – Debasish Mridha
129. Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart. – Osho
130. New learning never hurt anybody. – Tamora Pierce
131. Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You’re stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from. – Waylon H. Lewis
132. Stupidity is a pretence to know unknowns, where as learning is a solution. – Wilson M. Mukama
133. The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. – Simone Weil
134. That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names. – Thomas Paine
135. Sometimes it is the methods of learning, more so, than what is learned, that is useful! – Garrett McCoy
136. Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. – Umberto Eco
137. Learn how to learn…then start learning. – Munia Khan
138. Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit. – Louise Philippe Dulay
139. Learning is essential for living the life you love. – A.D. Posey
140. Be inquisitive. Open your eyes, open your minds to things you don’t necessarily know even exist. I think that’s an important part of learning and growing. The more [you]’re willing to ask, the more {you}’re going to get out of it. – Jay Rinaldi
141. If we are put here on this earth for our learning, then it’s safe to say that life is a school and there are going to be tests. – Kayko Tamaki
142. Because you’re always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing. – Criss Jami
143. Learning and seeing are more important than education. – Sten Nadolny
144. Learning continuously is the best way to build one’s intellectual capacity. – Eraldo Banovac
145. Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active participants in the crusade for equality, representation, and social justice. – Martin Guevara Urbina
146. Like taking a breath, learning was the simple and extraordinary result of being alive. – Zander Sherman
147. We are always learning; we just have different teachers. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
148. However much we stumble, it is a teacher’s burden always to hope, that with learning, a boy’s character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man. – William Hundert
149. Not only is the experience of learning inspiring, the results are fulfilling. – Elaina Marie
150. Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching. – Mao Zedong
151. Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies. – Leon Trotsky
152. Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on. – Satya Nadella
153. The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
154. Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. – Albert Bandura
155. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. – Philip Stanhope
156. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings
157. The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. – John Gray
158. You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process. – Cynthia Weil
159. The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. – Emile Hirsch
160. Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. – William Glasser
161. Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
162. There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times. – Jonathan Ive
163. Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death. – Alexander De Croo
164. I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience. – Adrian Grenier
165. Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. – Herbert A. Simon
166. The day I think I’ve achieved everything will be the day I fail. There is no end to learning, and I want to continue being a student. – Tiger Shroff
167. Learning what you don’t want is how you know what you do want. – Robin Wright
168. No matter what, you’ve got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning. – Harold Hamm
169. Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. – Jean de La Fontaine
170. The only thing that compounds faster than interest is learning. – Orrin Woodward
171. Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning. – Unarine Ramaru
172. Learning takes a lifetime and even the geniuses among us die ignorant. You should always want to learn, to grow, to improve. Otherwise what’s the point? You may as well just give up and die. There’s always new things to see, people to meet, lessons to learn. Life is both a classroom and a teacher. We’ll always be the students, never the professors. – A.J. Compton
