Learning Quotes

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

Albert Einstein

"Learning is experience. Everything else is just information."

Albert Einstein

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Thomas A. Edison

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?"

Confucius

"When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them."

Confucius

"Study the past if you would define the future."

Confucius

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

Confucius

"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

"Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none."

Zhuangzi

"Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice."

Xunzi

"Much learning does not teach understanding."

Heraclitus

"It is right to learn, even from the enemy."

Ovid

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

Galileo Galilei

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Isaac Newton

"The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth."

Desiderius Erasmus

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

Desiderius Erasmus

"Plants are shaped by cultivation and man by education."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

Francis Bacon

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

Rene Descartes

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

Alexander Pope