Learning Quotes: Inspiring Words for Lifelong Growth

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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, Teacher

"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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, Businessman

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"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, Author

"I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous"

Confucius, Philosopher

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"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, Businessman

"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"Teaching is the royal road to learning"

Jessamyn West, Author

"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"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"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born"

Emily Carr, Artist

"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language"

John Milius, Director

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

"The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep"

Suzanne Fields

"Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal"

Suzanne Fields

"It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning"

Sofia Vergara, Model

"Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements"

John Sexton, Educator

"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them"

Carl Levin, Politician

"Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part"

John Deacon, Musician

"Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills"

Debbie Stabenow, Politician

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