Top 40 Learning Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Learn continually. There’s always “one more thing” to learn.”

— Steve Jobs

2. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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3. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

— Confucius

4. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

— Albert Einstein

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5. “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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6. “A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”

— Will Rogers

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7. “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”

— Marvin Minsky

8. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

— Thomas J. Watson

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9. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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10. “Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.”

— Jean Piaget

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11. “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

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12. “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.”

— Claude Bernard

13. “Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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14. “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.”

— Galileo Galilei

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15. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

— Sydney J. Harris

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16. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

— Carl R. Rogers

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17. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

— Louisa May Alcott

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18. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”

— Galileo Galilei

19. “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

— Pema Chödrön

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20. “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

— Abraham Lincoln

21. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

— Albert Einstein

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22. “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

— Dr. Seuss

23. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

— Pablo Picasso

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24. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, “Certainly I can!”. Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

25. “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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26. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

— Winston Churchill

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27. “It is better to create than to learn. Creating is the essence of life.”

— Julius Caesar

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28. “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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29. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

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30. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

— Vernon Howard

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31. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

32. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

— Albert Einstein

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33. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

— Alexander Pope

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34. “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

— Confucius

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35. “You teach best what you most need to learn.”

— Richard Bach

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36. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

— Abigail Adams

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37. “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

— Horace Mann

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38. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

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39. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

— Albert Einstein

40. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

— John Wooden

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