30 inspiring quotes about learning

Learning is essential because it helps you acquire skills and knowledge. Get inspired by 30 powerful quotes about learning.

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1. “How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.” -Roy Bennett

2. “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti

3. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” -Albert Einstein

4. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -Benjamin Franklin

5. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.” -Vernon Howard

6. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” -Abigail Adams

7. “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

8. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” -Leo Buscaglia

9. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi

10. “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” -Doris Lessing

11. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” -Leonardo da Vinci

12. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” -Bruce Lee

13. “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” -Thomas Huxley

14. “Learn as though you would never be able to master it. Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.” -Confucius

15. “The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.” -Michel Legrand

16. “Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” -Brian Tracy

17. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” -Richard Branson

18. “In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

19. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” -Richard Feynmann

20. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” -B.B. King

21. “I am still learning.” -Michaelangelo

22. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss

23. “I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.” -Lou Holtz

24. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” -John Wooden

25. “Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don’t love it, you’ve given yourself a new experience.” -Alli Simpson

26. “That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.” -Anthony Bourdain

27. “The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things.” -Carol Dweck

28. “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” -Ray LeBlond

29. “The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.” -T.D. Jakes

30. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Sydney Harris

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