Learning & Education: Learning Quotes

Discover thoughtful learning quotes that encourage curiosity, resilience, and steady progress. These selections highlight the value of practice, reflection, and asking better questions, offering gentle motivation for both beginners and seasoned learners. Use them to spark discussion, set study intentions, or refresh classroom energy. Whether you are exploring new skills or deepening expertise, this collection aims to reaffirm a growth mindset and the joy of understanding.

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

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"It is better to learn late than never"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

Malcolm Forbes

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

Lillian Smith, Author

Lillian Smith

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

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

Confucius, Philosopher

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

Orison Swett Marden

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

Nelson Mandela

"The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

Loris Malaguzzi

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

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"The true art of memory is the art of attention"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"Education is the transmission of civilization"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"Education is the best provision for old age"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative"

John Dewey, Philosopher

John Dewey

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

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

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"Education is the movement from darkness to light"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

Allan Bloom

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

Ernest Dimnet

"The doer alone learneth"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"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

Henry Ford

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"He listens well who takes notes"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control"

Pink Floyd, Musician

Pink Floyd

"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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