115 Learning Quotes

Here are 115 of the best learning quotes I could find. Hope you’ll find inspiration and motivation to keep learning and growing. Enjoy!

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. Weston H. Agor

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers. Albert Einstein

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. Zig Ziglar

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather

Once you learn patience, your options suddenly expand. Robert Greene

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John Gardner

Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury

Don’t make up your mind. “Knowing” is the end of learning. Naval Ravikant

The fear of coming up as a fool keeps you always a fool. Kunal (@CrazyPolymath)

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. Epictetus

Ease and abundance are for fools. Discomfort is for the wise. Maxime Lagacé

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. Alain de Botton

Related quotes and topics: education, humility, knowledge

The Best Learning Quotes

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The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. Friedrich Nietzsche

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. Aristophanes

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics)

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin

You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky

Constantly look for challenges, pushing past your comfort zone. Robert Greene

Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning. Naval Ravikant Click to tweet

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. Lord Chesterfield

You learn more feigning ignorance than signaling knowledgeability. Michael

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn. Ray Bradbury

Humility is the doorway to truth and clarity of objectives… it’s the doorway to learning. Wynton Marsalis

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

I always get by best with my naivety, which is 20 percent deliberate. Albert Einstein

The goal of all learning is action, not knowledge. John C. Maxwell Click to tweet

Almost all Americans own a smartphone or a computer. Each device contains the library of Alexandria. The sum total of all world knowledge. You can learn anything. Why don’t you? Too busy tracking social status. Too enthralled by imagery your evolution can’t resist. @TheStoicEmperor

Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world. Marc Cuban

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas Huxley Click to tweet

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness. It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye

More related topics: teacher, success

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The Most Famous Learning Quotes

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I never lose. I either win or learn. Nelson Mandela Click to tweet

Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain. John F. Kennedy

The more you learn, the more you earn. Warren Buffett

The greatest learning for me usually happens in times of distress, pain, suffering. Oprah Winfrey

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. Phil Collins

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

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. Mahatma Gandhi

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. Mark Twain

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. Buddha

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. Agatha Christie

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire Click to tweet

With every mistake we must surely be learning. George Harrison (The Beatles)

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B.B. King

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. Richard Branson

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso

Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott

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When one teaches, two learn. Robert A. Heinlein Click to tweet

Belief gets in the way of learning. Robert A. Heinlein

“What did you learn” is always first and best question. Oprah Winfrey

Never stop learning. Never stop growing. Mel Robbins

Take what you learn and make a difference with it. Tony Robbins

Learn bits and pieces from everyone. Naval Ravikant

You can’t learn from anyone if you never stop talking. @TheStoicEmperor

Rejoice in what you learn, and spray it. Tim Minchin

In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

The cost of failure is…learning. Neil Strauss

Unlearning is the highest form of learning. Boii McCoy

There is no learning without pain. Shane Parrish

If it’s easy, you’re not learning.

The key is to fail, learn, and improve quickly. Ray Dalio

Evolve or die. Ray Dalio

Failure is a teacher. Ray Dalio

What we need to learn is in front of us. Paulo Coelho

Observe and absorb reality as deeply as possible. Robert Greene

To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert

I learn best by jumping into the unknown. Jesse Itzler

Let your past make you better, not bitter. Lewis Howes

To learn one must be humble. James Joyce (Ulysses) Click to tweet

He who laughs most, learns best. John Cleese

All learning has an emotional base. Plato

The greatest enemy of learning is knowing. John C. Maxwell

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Seneca

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Inspirational Learning Quotes

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From adversity we can learn the value of patience. Dalai Lama Click to tweet

Invest time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to enrich you. Steve Jobs

The pain and boredom we experience in the initial stage of learning a skill toughens our minds. Robert Greene (Mastery)

Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention. Robert Greene

Humans are learning machines. You just need to create the context for our natural curiosity to arise. James Clear

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator. Yogi Berra

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Doug Larson

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true. Naval Ravikant

The best teachers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best peers are on the Internet. Naval Ravikant

Our job is obvious: We need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has. Seth Godin

Don’t burn your future on the altar of the past. Remember it. Don’t live in it. Learn the lesson. The past is fixed. The future is variable. You will transform. You will endure. @TheStoicEmperor

No learning without humility. No growth without pain. No reward without risk. No change without loss. Embrace. Endure. @TheStoicEmperor

If knowledge is a power, then learning is a superpower. Jim Kwik

You can and inevitably will be surprised by your own ability. It is often not a question of ‘can’ you do it. The learning. The work. The achievement. It is instead a question of ‘will’ you. Avery Regelman

Learn from mistakes, but never regret you made them. We make mistakes because we dare to step outside our comfort zone. Paulo Coelho

Realize your potential. Don’t go to your grave with your treasure still in you. Keep growing. Keep learning. Joel Osteen

Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best. John C. Maxwell Click to tweet

I am responsible for learning whatever it takes to get from one level to the next. Eric Thomas

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. Novalis Click to tweet

That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward. Roy T. Bennett

If you’re in the valley of despair with an idea that means the world to you, keep going, keep growing, keep learning. Your time is coming. Mel Robbins

You will fail your way to success. Learn from your mistakes and keep moving. Les Brown

Keep learning. Keep growing. Keep improving. Marie Forleo

See also: hard work

See also: 8 Steps to Continuous Self Motivation Even During the Difficult Times (lifehack.org)

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Live, love, learn, leave a legacy. Stephen R. Covey Click to tweet

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