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:

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