by Teaching staff
The Internet loves many things.
He loves cats, for example. Memes too. He loves videos, which means he loves YouTube. He loves recipes, Wikipedia, annoying misdiagnoses on WebMd, and, among other things (and getting to the point here), quotes. This is partly due to the brief nature of the quote, which matches the attention span of readers who are inundated with endless feeds of new content.
Quote length often fits into many of the most popular formats across the internet, including Pinterest-friendly graphics, tweets, slideshows, and more.
So, quotes about learning. Below, we’ve selected 52 of our favorite quotes about learning. We tried to choose from a variety of thinkers, from teachers and writers to poets and farmers to philosophers and businessmen to civil rights leaders and, in a few cases, even politicians.
Quotes about learning: These quotes about learning necessarily reflect a certain view of learning, and in this way, this list is edited. At TeachThought, we focus on the humanistic/critical thinking/innovation angle, and the quotes we’ve chosen mostly reflect that, just as we do at 50 of the best quotes about teaching.
We hope you find a few of them useful, like the writing prompts, for example. Maybe it’s the start of the discussion. Or just to remind you as a teacher of the nature and importance of your craft.
52 of the best quotes about learning
1. “The ability to speak accurately is closely related to the ability to know accurately.” —Wendell Berry
2. Any fool would know. The important point is to understand. -Albert Einstein
3. Tell me and I will forget. Teach me while I remember. Involve me while I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
4. “It is often what we already know that prevents us from learning.” -Claude Bernard
5. “Learning is the unification of seemingly disparate ideas and data.” -Terrell Heck
6. “The illiterate people of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, erase what they have learned, and then learn again.” – Alvin Toffler
7. “The whole world is a laboratory for the inquiring mind.” -Martin Fisher
8. “It’s what you learn after you know it that’s all that matters.” -Harry S. Truman
9. “You don’t learn anything when you talk.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
10. “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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11. You don’t learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing, and by falling. -Richard Branson
12. All of our knowledge begins with the senses, then moves to understanding, and ends with the mind. There is nothing higher than the mind. – Immanuel Kant
13. “Education is lighting a fire, not filling a pot.” -Socrates
14. ‘It’s not that I’m very smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. -Albert Einstein
15. “In three ways we can learn wisdom: first, by reasoning, which is nobler; The second: by imitation, which is easier. The third is by experience, which is the most bitter. -Confucius
16. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” – Alexander the Pope
17. Enlightenment is a person’s abandonment of his self-inflicted immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s intelligence without guidance from another person. This immaturity is self-inflicted if it does not result from a lack of intelligence, but rather from a lack of determination and courage to use one’s intelligence without being guided by another. Saber Audi! Have the courage to use your intelligence! Therefore it is the slogan of enlightenment. – Immanuel Kant
18. The more I read, the more I gain, and the more certain I become that I know nothing. – Voltaire
19. “Tolerating uncertainty is difficult, but so are most other virtues.” -Bertrand Russell
20. Perhaps when we no longer know what we should do, we have arrived at our true work, and when we no longer know which path to take, we have arrived at our true journey. A mind that is not confused does not work. The river that is blocked is the one that sings.” -Wendell Berry
21. “What we have persevered in becomes easier for us; it is not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our capacity for action increases.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. -George Carlin
23. “The man who reads much and uses his mind little falls into lazy habits of thought.” -Albert Einstein
24. “If you have not learned the meaning of friendship, you have not learned anything.” -Muhammad Ali
25. “Anyone who begins to think puts a part of the world in danger.” -John Dewey
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26. “A problem well set is half solved.” -John Dewey
27. The more you read, the more things you learn. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go. -doctor. Mite
28. “All learning has an emotional base.” -Plato
29. Knowledge obtained by force does not control the mind. -Plato
30. “Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” William James
31. “Every student can learn, but not on the same day, or in the same way.” -George Evans
32. Knowledge is not enough. We must apply. Preparedness is not enough; We must. -Bruce Lee
33. Be more than you show, speak less than you know, lend less than you owe, ride more than you go, learn more than you know, give away less than you throw away. -William Shakespeare
34. “Ignorance is not so much a shame as unwillingness to learn.” -Benjamin Franklin
35. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
36. “Cooperation allows us to know more than we can know ourselves.” -Paul Solarz
37. “Towering genius despises the beaten path.” Abraham Lincoln
38. “Don’t let formal education get in the way of your learning.” -Mark Twain
39. “Dialogue cannot exist without humility.” – Paulo Freire
40. Development is a series of new births. -Maria Montessori
41. “When man’s mind is expanded by a new idea, it never regains its original dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
42. It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. -Wendell Berry
43. “Even a genius asks questions.” -Tupac Shakur
44. “Expecting all children of the same age to learn the same materials is like expecting all children of the same age to wear the same size of clothes.” – Madeline Hunter
45. “What you think, you become.” What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. -Buddha
46. ’Transfer is important, but think first about the learner, then about their home environment. Then, moreover, let us hope for the self-application of knowledge. spontaneous. Uncoordinated. The spontaneous, personal, and creative application of understanding in dynamic physical and digital environments. -Terry Heck
47. “The human mind is our primary resource.” -John F. Kennedy
48. ‘All the books in the world contain no more information than what is broadcast as video in one large American city in one year.’ Not all bits have equal value. -Carl Sagan
49. “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” -Buddha
50. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” -Stephen Hawking
51. “Ideas without action are not ideas.” They are regretful. -Steve Jobs
52. Maybe when we don’t know what to do,
We have got to our real work
When we no longer know which way to go,
We have begun our real journey.
53. A mind that is not confused does not work. The blocked current is the one that sings. – Wendell Berry
54. “There are four powers: memory, reason, desire and greed. The first two are mental and the other two are sensory. The three senses cannot be prevented: sight, hearing, and smell. Touch and taste not at all. -Leonardo da Vinci
52 of the best quotes about learning