110 Best Learning Quotes

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart. – Gandalf

High five! – Borat

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. – Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. – Socrates

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time. – Malcolm X

I have learned that the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. – Abraham Maslow

A failure is to be preferred to an unattained success, for the failure at least gives you knowledge. – Abraham Maslow

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. – Vincent Van Gogh

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy

Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain. – John F. Kennedy

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. – Dalai Lama

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. – Dalai Lama

What matters more than talent is a person's ability to learn and their willingness to work hard. – Jeff Bezos

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. – Bill Gates

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other. – Bill Gates

The best way of learning about anything is by doing. – Richard Branson

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. – Richard Branson

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later! – Richard Branson

Don't be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. – Richard Branson

If you feel like you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. – Richard Branson

The thing that we have done that few others have done is we have admitted when we’re wrong, and we have changed. – Tim Cook

I have so much more to learn, and that excites me. – Beyonce

I don't have any regrets. I've learned from everything I've been through. – Beyonce

The learn-it-all will always do better than the know-it-all. – Satya Nadella

I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. – Satya Nadella

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. – Satya Nadella

We have to be willing to lean into uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, recognizing failure happens along the way to mastery. – Satya Nadella

I'm defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. – Satya Nadella

I don't want to be the know-it-all. I want to be the learn-it-all. – Satya Nadella

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. – Larry Page

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. – Mark Cuban

You learn more in failure than you do in success. – Mark Cuban

The more we protect ourselves from conflict, the more we avoid dispute and contest, the more we avoid being wrong, the more we avoid the very thing that is necessary to grow and thrive. – Simon Sinek

The more we are willing to admit we don't know, the more we can learn. – Simon Sinek

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. – Jack Ma

It’s very difficult to know the outside world through books. You have to experience it. – Jack Ma

When we have money, we start making mistakes. – Jack Ma

Instead of learning from other people’s success, learn from their mistakes. Most of the people who fail share common reasons to fail, while success can be attributed to various kinds of reasons. – Jack Ma

If you want to be successful, learn from the other’s mistakes, not from their success. – Jack Ma

I knew nothing about technology. I knew nothing about management. I knew nothing about anything. That was my asset. – Jack Ma

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success. – Arianna Huffington

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. – Stanley Kubrick

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. – Stanley Kubrick