Learning Quotes

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

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

Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

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

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

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.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.