by TeachThought Staff
The internet loves many things.
For example, I love cats. Memes too. I love videos, which means I love YouTube. I love recipes, Wikipedia, alarming misdiagnoses on WebMd, and most of all (and I’m getting real here) quotes. This is also because the concise nature of quotes matches the attention span of readers who are bombarded with a constant feed of new content.
Quote lengths often fit into many of the popular formats across the internet, including Pinterest-friendly graphics, tweets, and slideshows.
So here’s a quote about learning. Below, we’ve selected 52 of our favorite quotes about learning. We tried to choose from a variety of thinkers, including teachers, writers, poets, farmers, philosophers, entrepreneurs, civil rights leaders, and in some cases politicians.
Quotes about learning: This list has been compiled because these quotes about learning necessarily reflect a particular view of learning. At TeachThought, we focus on the people/critical thinking/innovation angle, and the quotes we choose primarily reflect that, just as we did with the 50 Best Teaching Quotes. I am.
I hope some of them are useful, for example in creating prompts. It might spark a discussion. Or, as an educator, use it just to remind yourself of the nature and importance of your craft.
52 Best Quotes About Learning
1. “The ability to speak accurately is closely related to the ability to know accurately.” —Wendell Berry
2. “Any fool can understand. The important thing is to understand. –Albert Einstein
3. “Tell me and I will forget.” Teach me and I will remember. Involve me and I will learn. –Benjamin Franklin
4. “What we already know often prevents us from learning.” – Claude Bernard
5. “Learning is the integration of seemingly disparate ideas and data.” – Terrell Huyck
6. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be someone who cannot read or write, but someone who cannot learn, forget, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
7. “To the inquisitive mind, the whole world is a laboratory.” –Martin Fisher
8. “What matters is what you learn after you know it.” –Harry S. Truman
9. “You’re not learning anything when you’re talking.” –Lyndon B. Johnson
10. “I never learned from anyone who agreed with me.” – Robert A. Heinlein
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11. You can’t learn to walk by rules. You learn by doing and by falling. –Richard Branson
12. “All our knowledge begins with the senses, progresses to understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. – Immanuel Kant
13. “Education is kindling the flame, not filling the vessel.” –Socrates
14. “It’s not that I’m that smart, but I keep asking questions longer.” – Albert Einstein
15. “We can learn wisdom in three ways. First, by contemplation, which is the noblest. Second, by imitation, which is the easiest. Third, by experience. According to Confucius, this is the most bitter one.
16. “Learning a little is a dangerous thing.” –Alexander Pope
17. Enlightenment is the emergence of human beings from their own self-induced immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to utilize one’s intelligence without the guidance of others. Such immaturity is caused by oneself, when it is not caused by a lack of intelligence, but by a lack of determination and courage to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of others. Sapele Ord! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! This is therefore the motto of enlightenment. ” – Immanuel Kant
18. “The more you read, the more you know and the more convinced you are that you know nothing.” –Voltaire
19. “Uncertainty is difficult to tolerate, but so are most other virtues.” –Bertrand Russell
20. “When we don’t know what to do, we may have come to the real job; when we don’t know which way to go, we may have come to the real journey. ” A spirit that is not perplexed will not be employed. It is the blocked flow that sings. –Wendell Berry
21. “What we continue to do becomes easier for us; the very nature of things does not change, but our power to do 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. “People who read too much and use their minds too little develop lazy thinking habits.” –Albert Einstein
24. “If you have not learned the meaning of friendship, you have learned nothing.” –Muhammad Ali
25. “Everyone who begins to think puts part of the world at risk.” – John Dewey
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26. “A problem well thought out is only half solved.” – John Dewey
27. “The more you read, the more you know. The more you learn, the more places you can go. ” – Dr. Seuss
28. “All learning has an emotional basis.” –Plato
29. Knowledge acquired by force will never settle in the mind. -Plato
30. “Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” William James
31. “All students can learn, but not all students learn on the same day or in the same way.” –George Evans
32. Knowing is not enough. You must apply. Willingness alone is not enough. we have to do that. –Bruce Lee
33. “Have more than you show, speak more than you know, lend more than you borrow, ride more than you get, learn more than you throw, set less than you throw. ” – William Shakespeare
34. “There is no shame in ignorance, but an unwillingness to learn.” –Benjamin Franklin
35. “We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
36. “Collaboration allows us to know more than we can know ourselves.” – Paul Sollers
37. “Towering genius despises the beaten path.” Abraham Lincoln
38. “Don’t let formal education get in the way of learning.” –Mark Twain
39. “There can be no dialogue without humility.” –Paulo Freire
40. Development is a series of rebirths. – Maria Montessori
41. “The human mind, once expanded by new ideas, never returns to its original size.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes
42. “It is not from ourselves that we learn how to be better than ourselves.” – Wendell Berry
43. “Even geniuses ask questions.” –Tupac Shakur
44. “Expecting all children of the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children of the same age to wear the same size clothes.” –Madeline Hunter
45. “What you think becomes you.” What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. ” – Buddha
46. “Transfer is important, but think about the learner first and then their home environment.” And furthermore, expect spontaneous application of knowledge. No prompt. Unformatted. Spontaneous, personal, and creative application of understanding in dynamic physical and digital environments. ” –Terry Haick
47. “The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy
48. “Every book in the world contains as much information as is broadcast on video in one big city in America in one year.” Not all bits have the same value. – Carl Sagan
49. “The quieter it gets, the more sound you can hear.” -Buddha
50. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking
51. An idea without action is not an idea. I regret it. –Steve Jobs
52. “When we no longer know what to do, it’s probably because
we came to real work
And when you no longer know which way to go,
We started a real journey.
53. “A heart that is not perplexed will not be hired. The blocked river sings. ” – Wendell Berry
54. “There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and greed.” The first two are mental, the other two are sensual. The three senses of sight, hearing, and smell cannot be completely prevented. The texture and taste are completely different. ” –Leonardo da Vinci
52 Best Quotes About Learning
