“Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.”—William Crawford
Inspirational quotes About Learning from Educators
These inspirational quotes — from short sayings to longer messages — can help get you motivated to tackle anything life throws at you.
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”—Benjamin Franklin
“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated
“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”—E. M. Forster
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”- Malcolm X
“You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”—Mortimer
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”—Richard Branson
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”—Harry S Truman
“Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data.”—Terry Heick
“There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”―Sydney J. Harris
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children,
“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”—B.B. King
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”—Doris Lessing
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.”—Richard Feynman
“One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”—Anthony J. D’Angelo
“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”—Mahatma Gandhi
“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”—Antisthenes
“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”—Confucius
“A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.”—Chinese
“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”—Howard Gardner
“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one
“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”—Robert A. Heinlein
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,
“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.”—Claude Bernard
“Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.”—Tom Colicchio
“Education without application is just entertainment.”—Tim Sanders
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”—Herbert Spencer