In a world that is constantly evolving and changing, learning is a lifelong process that helps us to adapt, grow and realize our full potential.
In this article you will find a selection of the best quotes on the subject of learning. These inspiring statements come from outstanding personalities in various fields and offer insights and motivation for your own educational journey.
Immerse yourself in the world of learning and let these quotes inspire you to develop your potential to the full.
Most people are willing to learn, but only very few are willing to be taught.
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
You stay young as long as you can still learn, adopt new habits and tolerate contradiction.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant. I could hardly bear to be around the old man. But at twenty-one, I was amazed at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain, American writer
When you get into the water, you learn to swim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
There is no shame in not knowing, but there is shame in not wanting to learn.
Socrates, Greek philosopher
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
BB King, American musician
Human life is a constant school.
Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer
Knowledge is useless if you don’t apply it.
Anton Chekhov, Russian writer
The ability to learn is a matter of mental attitude and not of age.
Emil Oesch, Swiss educator
Defeats are easy to learn from. It is more difficult to learn from victories.
Gustav Stresemann, German politician
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony D’Angelo, American author and motivational speaker
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin, American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman
The greatest joy is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Renaissance painter and inventor
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller, English theologian and writer
In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett, American author and radio presenter
Learning is an activity in which you never reach the goal and at the same time always have to fear losing what you have already achieved.
Confucius, Chinese philosopher
The good always learn more from the bad than the bad from the good.
German proverb
We must learn to meet people who are different from us without fear, mistrust or prejudice. Children learn this more easily than adults.
Hermann Gmeiner, Austrian philanthropist and founder of SOS Children’s Villages
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia, American author and motivational speaker
The roots of the formation are bitter, but its fruits are sweet.
Aristotle, Greek philosopher
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney, American entrepreneur and film producer
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” I’ve loved this quote since I first read it however many years ago.
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer
Tell me, and I will listen; Teach me, and I’ll remember; Involve me, and I will learn.
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor
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.
Clay P. Bedford, industrialist and engineer
No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope, English poet
It is not the mountain that we conquer – we conquer ourselves.
Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist
To whom heaven has assigned a great task, it only wears down his heart and will through suffering.
Mengzi, Chinese philosopher
There is no failure. You win or you learn. Either one is okay.
Kevin Kruse, American author and entrepreneur
It is not enough to know – you also have to apply. It is not enough to want – you also have to do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and thinker
I saw as a teacher how if you take that spark of learning that those children have and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
Paul Wellstone, US-Senator
Just as iron rusts out of use and stagnant water spoils or freezes in the cold, so the spirit degenerates without exercise.
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath and artist
Learning is like rowing against the current. If you stop doing this, you drift back.
Laozi, Chinese philosopher
There is no shame in not knowing, but there is shame in not wanting to learn.
Socrates, Greek philosopher
The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness.
Henry Thomas Buckle, British historian and essayist
Obstacles and difficulties are steps on which we climb upwards.
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer
Don’t worry about your difficulties with math. I can assure you that mine are even bigger.
Albert Einstein, German physicist
The happiness of life is not to have few or no difficulties, but to overcome them all victoriously and gloriously.
Carl Hilty, Swiss lawyer and writer
Nobody gets everything right the first time. What sets us apart is how we learn from our mistakes.
Richard Branson, British entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group
A head without a memory is a fortress without a crew.
Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor
Education does not come from reading, but from thinking about what you have read.
Carl Hilty, Swiss lawyer and writer
Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford, American entrepreneur and industrialist
Everyone has a board in front of their head – it just depends on the distance.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer
Don’t worry about your difficulties with math. I can assure you that mine are even bigger.
Albert Einstein, German physicist
Have the courage to use your own mind.
Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
Nobody gets everything right the first time. What sets us apart is how we learn from our mistakes.
Richard Branson, British entrepreneur and founder of the Virgin Group
People who don’t learn anything don’t learn anything from the fact that they haven’t learned anything.
Erhard Blanck, German author and teacher
It is two different things to have received understanding and to have learned to use the understanding you have received.
Dorothea Erxleben, German doctor and first woman to gain a doctorate in Germany
The mind is like a ticket: it only makes sense if it is used.
Ernst Reinhold Hauschka, German author and educator
If you don’t try, you’ll never know if you can do it.
Hans Kammerlander, Italian adventurer
There is no shame in not knowing, but there is shame in not wanting to learn.
Plato, Greek philosopher
The authority of the teacher often harms those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman politician and philosopher
You can’t teach a person anything, you can only help them to discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
If you don’t lose your mind over certain things, you have nothing to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer and playwright
A little education adorns the whole person.
Heinrich Heine, German poet and journalist
The solution is always simple, you just have to find it.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and dissident
A book is a mirror, if a monkey looks into it, no apostle can look out.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German writer and physicist
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic
People are supposed to learn, only oxen study.
Erich Kästner, German writer and satirist
Enthusiasm is fertilizer for the brain.
Gerald Hüther, German brain researcher and author
The head is round so that thinking can change direction.
Francis Picabia, French artist and Dadaist
He who has straw in his head fears the spark of truth.
Jupp Müller, German author and satirist
Stupidity is also a natural talent.
Wilhelm Busch, German poet and illustrator
A truth can only work when the recipient is ready for it.
Christian Morgenstern, German writer and poet
I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet
As you have sown, so shall you reap.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking, British physicist and cosmologist
You have to have learned a lot to be able to ask about what you don’t know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss writer and philosopher
Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you would live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian independence leader and philosopher
We can learn the most from what we do not yet know.
Emil Kahlenberg, German author and educator
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet
As soon as you have become a master in one thing, you should become a student in another.
Gerhart Hauptmann, German playwright and author
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor
I’d rather have one gram of knowledge than a hundred tons of opinion.
Manès Sperber, Austrian writer and social scientist
Detours also broaden our horizons.
Ernst Ferstl, Austrian author and teacher
Dealing with books drives people crazy.
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch scholar and humanist
Certain books seem to be written not so that you can learn from them, but so that you know that the author knew something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and thinker
Learn for your life, but don’t forget to live.
Martin Gerhard Reisenberg, German author and life coach
Intelligence cannot be determined by the path, but only by the result.
Garri Kasparov, Russian chess grandmaster and politician
If you want to be successful, you have to learn that failures are healthy, unavoidable steps on the way to the top.
Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and author
I have often learned more from my setbacks than from my successes.
Boris Becker, German tennis player
Once you learn to accept defeat, you can have joy and success.
Rickey Henderson, American baseball player
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. Paul Brown · Defeat Line Win Book Learn.
Paul Brown, American American football coach
Anyone who understands geometry is able to understand everything in this world.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician
Academic freedom is the freedom to learn as much as you want.
Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist and politician
Natural intellect can replace almost any level of education, but no education can replace natural intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher
The mind and the ability to use it are two different abilities.
Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer
If you stop making mistakes, you stop learning.
Theodor Fontane, German writer and journalist
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie, American author and motivational speaker
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
Henry Ford, American entrepreneur and automobile pioneer
The disadvantage of intelligence is that you are constantly forced to learn.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and novelist
You don’t learn math, you just get used to it.
Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician
Mathematics has to be studied because it organizes thoughts.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer
The advantage of being clever is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
Kurt Tucholsky, German writer and journalist
The more we take in, the greater our spiritual capacity becomes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher and statesman
Resilience, the ability to bounce back from setbacks, is fortified through our experiences with mistakes. If we never experience failure, we miss out on the wonderful practice that facing challenging setbacks provides us as we learn and grow.
Winston Churchill, British statesman and prime minister
There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.
Sean Connery, Scottish actor
Experience is the best teacher. Only the school fees are heavy.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist and historian
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor
If you make a mistake and don’t correct it, you make a second one.
Confucius, Chinese philosopher
You don’t learn anything without making mistakes.
Romain Rolland, French writer and Nobel Prize winner
Suffering, error and resilience keep life alive.
Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer and poet
You have to see a task ahead of you and not a quiet life.
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer and moral philosopher
We do not live to believe, but to learn.
Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist monk and spiritual leader
Even a disappointment, if it is only thorough and final, is a step forward
Max Planck, German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Educating yourself means wanting to learn how everything happens.
Epictetus, Greek philosopher
All change creates fear. And the best way to combat this is to improve knowledge.
Ihno Schneevoigt, German author and coach
I want to change by learning. I would like to die a little less stupid than I was born.
André Heller, Austrian artist, author and entrepreneur
Those who do not learn from the past will be punished by the future.
Adele Elisa Countess of Bredow-Görne
Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and thinker
Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.
Michael J. Gelb, American author
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
EM Forster, British author