“Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.” – Brian Regan
Learning is essential to our existence. It nourishes our minds just as food nourishes our bodies. Above all, it helps us adapt to change. Which is more important than ever with the rapid rise of life altering technologies.
With that in mind, I’ve curated 90 inspirational quotes relating to learning divided into the following categories:
- Our top quotes about learning
- Never stop learning quotes
- Quotes about children learning
- Quotes about learning new things
- Inspirational quotes about learning
- Quotes about learning from the past
Our top ten quotes about learning
“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
- “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “Learning is not a spectator sport.” – D. Blocher
- “Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.” – Brian Regan
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” – F. Douglas
- “Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” – Plato
- “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” – Vernon Howard
- “When you talk, you are only repeating something you know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.” – Dalai Lama
- “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana
Never stop learning quotes
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.” – Brian Regan
- “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
- “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein
- “The education of a man is never completed until he dies.” – Robert E. Lee
- “There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.” – Roy Bennett
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
- “From the sadness, learn something; from the happiness, learn something. From the setback, learn something and even from the success learn something. Never stop learning from any situation in life, for that is where the wisdom lies.” – Gift Gugu Mona
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” -Henry Ford
- “Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Don’t make up your mind. Knowing” is the end of learning.” – Naval Ravikant
- “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” – Ronald E. Osborn
- “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence… Never lose a holy curiosity.’’ – Albert Einstein
Quotes about children learning
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” – F. Douglas
- “Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play, children learn how to learn.” – O. Fred Donaldson
- “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.” – John Lubbock
- “Children always learn, but not necessarily what you want them to learn.” -Dr. Lillian Katz, University of Illinois
- “Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.” – Joseph Cornell
- “What is essential is to realize that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it.” – John Holt
- “We have forgotten that children are designed by nature to learn through self-directed play and exploration, and so, more and more, we deprive them of freedom to learn.” – Peter O. Gray
- “Learn as much as you can while you are young since life becomes too busy later.” – Dana Stewart Scott
- “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diognes
- “Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” – William Haley
- “The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them – the things they need to know – and forget the rest.” – Daniel Quinn
- “It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” – Leo Buscaglia
- “Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.” – William Crawford
- “When the untapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.” – Mary Hatwood Futrell
- “The word ‘education’ comes from the Latin ‘educere’ = e- (out of) + -ducere (to draw). Education is not just about putting information in. We have forgotten that it, in fact, begins in the child’s heart.” – Vince Gowmon
- “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher
- “The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does ‘just for fun’ and things that are ‘educational.’ The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.” – Penelope Leach
- “The principal goal of education in schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” – Jean Piaget
- “Don’t limit a child to your own learning. For he was born in another time.” Rabindranath Tagore
- “Children are not things to be moulded, but things to be unfolded.” Jess Lair
- “If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.” – Alfie Kohn
- “All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.” – George Evans
Quotes about learning new things
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” – Vernon Howard
- “When you talk, you are only repeating something you know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.” – Dalai Lama
- “People learn something new every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” -Bill Vaughan
- “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” – David M. Burns
- “With the new day comes, new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
- “You're off to great places. Today is your day!”—Dr. Seuss
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”—Dr. Seuss
- “You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you.”—Sonia Sotomayor
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
Inspirational Quotes about learning
“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
- “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “Learning is not a spectator sport.” – D. Blocher
- “Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn.” – Loris Malaguzzi
- “Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” Jim Rohn
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” B. B. King
- “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon
- “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
- “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” – Michel Legrand
- “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” – Confucius
- “Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” – Anton Chekhov
- “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” – John Hersey
- “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams
- “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb
- “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius
- “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” – Peter Brougham
- “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” – Allan Bloom
- “You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
- “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” – Carl Rogers
- “A mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
- “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” – Thomas Paine
- “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
- “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Education is the great engine to personal development.” – Nelson Mandela
- “The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.” – John Warren
- “You cannot make people learn. You can only provide the right conditions for learning to happen.” – Vince Gowmon
- “Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – B. Yeats
- “No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship.” – James Comer
Quotes about learning from the past
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana
- “The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Walt Disney
- “A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ” – Michael Crichton
- “We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.” – Margaret MacMillan
- “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
- “History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.” – Robert Penn Warren
- “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough
- “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.” – Machiavelli
- “History is for human self-knowledge … the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.” – R. G. Collingwood
- “No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.” – Terri Guillemets
- “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.” – Edmund Burke
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Liz Hurley has 30+ years of high school teaching experience and is one of our senior writers here at Learnopoly.