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Inspirational quotes About Learning from Educators

Educators, such as teachers, philosophers, and authors, have navigated the challenges of acquiring knowledge and skills. Their tireless pursuit of knowledge serves as a reminder that with determination and resilience, you can conquer any obstacle in your path.

“Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.”—William Crawford

  1. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”—Herbert Spencer
  2. “Education without application is just entertainment.”—Tim Sanders
  3. “Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.”—Tom Colicchio
  4. “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.”—Claude Bernard
  5. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”—Alvin Toffler
  6. “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”—Robert A. Heinlein
  7. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”—Dr. Seuss
  8. “Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”—Brian Tracy
  9. “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”—Zig Ziglar
  10. “If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”—Howard Gardner
  11. “A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.”—Chinese Proverb
  12. "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”—Confucius
  13. “The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”—Antisthenes
  14. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”—Mahatma Gandhi
  15. “One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”—Frank Herbert
  16. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”—Anthony J. D'Angelo
  17. “One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.”—Earl Nightingale
  18. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.”—Richard Feynman
  19. “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”—Doris Lessing
  20. “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”—B.B. King
  21. “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 Drucke
  22. “One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”—Frank Herbert
  23. “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
  24. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”―Sydney J. Harris
  25. “There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.”―Elie Wiesel
  26. “Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data.”—Terry Heick
  27. “It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”—Harry S Truman
  28. “You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”—Richard Branson
  29. “A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes
  30. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”—Clay P. Bedford
  31. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”—Mortimer Adler
  32. “You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”―John Updike
  33. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”- Malcolm X
  34. “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”—E. M. Forster
  35. “In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  36. “True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”—Nikos Kazantzakis
  37. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”—Benjamin Franklin
  38. “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
  39. “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Originally published at Crossmap. See the next page for quotes about contentment. 

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