The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
—Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American Writer, Futurist, Businessman
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
—Elon Musk (b.1971) American Entrepreneur, Business Executive
To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
—Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
—Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) American Sportsperson
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
—Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet
If you want to earn more-learn more. If you want to get more out of the world you must put more into the world. For, after all, men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
—William J. H. Boetcker (1873–1962) American Presbyterian Minister
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
—Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher
Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
—John Naisbitt American Trend Analyst
A heap of ill-chosen erudition is but the luggage of antiquity.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
—Mencius (c.371–c.289 BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
—Paul Eldridge (1888–1982) American Poet, Educator
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which “clicks.”
—Florence Scovel Shinn (1871–1940) American Illustrator, Spiritual Writer
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.
—Chinese Proverb
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
—Claude M. Bristol (1891–1951) American Journalist, Self-Help Author
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite?—No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
—Martin H. Fischer
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Poet, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist
It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.
—Indian Proverb
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Leader, Civil Rights Advocate, Author
Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything … and just sit still and watch.
—Lauren Hutton (b.1943) American Actress, Model
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
—Novalis (1772–1801) German Romantic Poet, Novelist
Leave a Reply