These inspiring educational quotes will show students, teachers and parents the power of learning. Wether you’re looking to motivate kids or young adults in the classroom, or other teachers and colleagues, this is the wisdom they need to thrive and be their very best version of themselves.
Also make sure to see these inspirational quotes for kids (if you’re looking to inspire and motivate the next generation).
Education Quotes
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
“Education without application is just entertainment.” – Tim Sanders
“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain
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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya
“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” – Mark Twain
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond
“School exams are memory tests, in the real world no one is going to stop you from referring to a book to solve a problem.” – Amit Kalantri
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking
“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
“The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” – Doris Lessing
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker
“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis
“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
“Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” – John Dewey
“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” – Denis Waitley
“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm
“Education is the great engine to personal development.” – Nelson Mandela
“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren
“All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin
“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
“You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” – Julia Child
“Education should not be reading about the past rather it should be about addressing the present.” – Rajesh Walecha
“Take what you learn and make a difference with it.” – Tony Robbins
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” – Horace Mann
“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.” – Confucius
“Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” – Marc Cuban
“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France
“Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.” – Daniel Keyes
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant
“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans
“We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” – Mark Twain
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
“Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman
“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein
“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.” – John Dewey
“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus
“The difference between school and life? 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
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” – William Glasser
“They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place.” – Malala Yousafzai
“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” – Victor Hugo
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem
“School is the path, not the point.” – Will Richardson
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker
“Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant
“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” – Dana Stewart Scott
“Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.” – Nelson Mandela
“All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.” – David Hawkins
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman
“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt
“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” – Robin Williams
“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” – Brad Sherman
“We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives.” – Nelson Mandela
“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” – Ann Brashares
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
“The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B.King
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” – Epictetus
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” – Gustave Flaubert
“No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.” – Nelson Mandela
“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin Fisher
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” – Bill Beattie
“To delight in literature is to desire to learn.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers
“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.” – George Santayana
“Let’s recommit to work towards our common goal: a nation where all of us are winners, all of us have shelter, food, and education.” – Nelson Mandela
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand
“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” – Nelson Mandela
“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” – Will Rogers
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” – William James
“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” – Seneca
“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” – Anton Chekhov
“I am not a teacher, but an awakened.” – Robert Frost
“The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” – Harry Wong
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” – Arnold H. Glasgow
“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” – Steve Irwin
“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
“All men by nature desire to know.” – Aristotle
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about.” – Thomas Huxley
“Reading is the key that unlocks the door of creativity.” – Agatha Christie
“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” – Marvin Minsky
“Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.” – Ernest Dimnet
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” – Isaac Asimov
“Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.” – Naval Ravikant
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
“In the end, we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.” – Don Tapscott
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