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 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

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

Colin Powell, Statesman

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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

Confucius, Philosopher

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

Natalie Portman, Actress

"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

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

Jack Welch, Businessman

"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

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

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"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

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

Rose Kennedy, Author

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

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

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"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

"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

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

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"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

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"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

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"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

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

"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

"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

"Change is the end result of all true learning"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Teaching is the royal road to learning"

Jessamyn West, Author

"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

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

John W. Gardner, Educator

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