100 Inspirational Quotes about Learning & Education

100 Inspirational Quotes about Learning & Education

I’m obsessed with learning and personal growth.

That’s what my blog is all about.

Here are 100 quotes about learning and education that reflect the power and importance of knowledge and personal growth:

  1. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” โ€“ Nelson Mandela
  2. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” โ€“ Abigail Adams
  3. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” โ€“ B.B. King
  4. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” โ€“ Malcolm X
  5. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” โ€“ Mahatma Gandhi
  6. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character โ€“ that is the goal of true education.” โ€“ Martin Luther King Jr.
  7. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” โ€“ John Dewey
  8. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” โ€“ Carl Rogers
  9. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” โ€“ Henry Ford
  10. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” โ€“ George Washington Carver
  11. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” โ€“ Leo Buscaglia
  12. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” โ€“ Aristotle
  13. “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” โ€“ C.S. Lewis
  14. “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” โ€“ Claude Bernard
  15. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” โ€“ Albert Einstein
  16. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” โ€“ Anthony J. D’Angelo
  17. “The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” โ€“ William S. Burroughs
  18. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” โ€“ Helen Keller
  19. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” โ€“ Benjamin Franklin
  20. “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” โ€“ Daniel J. Boorstin
  21. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” โ€“ Leonardo da Vinci
  22. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” โ€“ Benjamin Franklin
  23. “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” โ€“ Socrates
  24. “Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.” โ€“ Confucius
  25. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” โ€“ Mark Van Doren
  26. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” โ€“ Sydney J. Harris
  27. “Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” โ€“ Hebrew Proverb
  28. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” โ€“ Chinese Proverb
  29. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” โ€“ Albert Einstein
  30. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” โ€“ William Butler Yeats
  31. “Learning is not compulsoryโ€ฆ neither is survival.” โ€“ W. Edwards Deming
  32. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” โ€“ Winston Churchill
  33. “Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” โ€“ Jim Rohn
  34. “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” โ€“ George Santayana
  35. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” โ€“ Oscar Wilde
  36. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” โ€“ Edward Everett
  37. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” โ€“ Brad Henry
  38. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” โ€“ Mark Twain
  39. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” โ€“ Confucius
  40. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” โ€“ Alfred Mercier
  41. “Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” โ€“ Peter Brougham
  42. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” โ€“ Alvin Toffler
  43. “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” โ€“ Theodore Roosevelt
  44. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” โ€“ Robert Frost
  45. “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” โ€“ Claus Moser
  46. “Much learning does not teach understanding.” โ€“ Heraclitus
  47. “One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” โ€“ Malala Yousafzai
  48. “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.” โ€“ Aristotle
  49. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” โ€“ Victor Hugo
  50. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” โ€“ Will Durant
  51. “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” โ€“ Confucius
  52. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” โ€“ Mark Twain
  53. “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places youโ€™ll go.” โ€“ Dr. Seuss
  54. “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” โ€“ Christine Gregoire
  55. “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” โ€“ Phil Collins
  56. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” โ€“ Lyndon B. Johnson
  57. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” โ€“ Elizabeth Warren
  58. “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” โ€“ G.K. Chesterton
  59. “Education is the movement from darkness to light.” โ€“ Allan Bloom
  60. “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.” โ€“ John Hersey
  61. “To teach is to learn twice.” โ€“ Joseph Joubert
  62. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” โ€“ Brigham Young
  63. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” โ€“ Henry Ford
  64. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” โ€“ Chanakya
  65. “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” โ€“ Robert M. Hutchins
  66. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” โ€“ Malcolm Forbes
  67. “Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” โ€“ Anatole France
  68. “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open childrenโ€™s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” โ€“ Sir Anthony Seldon
  69. “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” โ€“ Benjamin Franklin
  70. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” โ€“ B.B. King
  71. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” โ€“ Shakuntala Devi
  72. “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” โ€“ John Cotton Dana
  73. “Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.” โ€“ African Proverb
  74. “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” โ€“ G.K. Chesterton
  75. “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” โ€“ Sydney J. Harris
  76. “A person who wonโ€™t read has no advantage over one who canโ€™t read.” โ€“ Mark Twain
  77. “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.” โ€“ Solomon Ortiz
  78. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” โ€“ Isaac Asimov
  79. “Education is the art of making man ethical.” โ€“ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  80. “Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” โ€“ Shakuntala Devi
  81. “Learning is a weightless treasure you always carry easily.” โ€“ Chinese Proverb
  82. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” โ€“ Plutarch
  83. “Education is the mother of leadership.” โ€“ Wendell Willkie
  84. “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” โ€“ Leonardo da Vinci
  85. “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.” โ€“ Joseph Addison
  86. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.” โ€“ Shai Reshef
  87. “A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” โ€“ Horace Mann
  88. “Education is the transmission of civilization.” โ€“ Will Durant
  89. “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” โ€“ William Butler Yeats
  90. “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” โ€“ Anatole France
  91. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” โ€“ Mahatma Gandhi
  92. “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” โ€“ Thomas Paine
  93. “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.” โ€“ Nelson Mandela
  94. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” โ€“ Edward Everett
  95. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” โ€“ Jeff Rich
  96. “Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.” โ€“ W. Edwards Deming
  97. “Education is the best provision for old age.” โ€“ Aristotle
  98. “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” โ€“ Theodore Roosevelt
  99. “Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” โ€“ John Ruskin
  100. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” โ€“ Socrates

These quotes celebrate the transformative power of education and the importance of continual learning throughout life.

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