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

Confucius, Philosopher

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

Colin Powell, Statesman

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

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

"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

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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

Natalie Portman, Actress

"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

"Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit"

William Pollard, Clergyman

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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

"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

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

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

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

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

Jack Welch, Businessman

"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"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

"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

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things"

Flora Lewis, Journalist

"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

"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 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, Businessman

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

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"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

"Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow"

William Pollard, Clergyman

"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

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"

Sam Keen, Author

"Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education"

John Hersey, Writer

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century"

S. J. Perelman, Writer

"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

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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