The learning process is different for each individual. Hear these great thinkers muse on what learning means to them in these inspirational quotes.

• Frances Willard: No matter how he may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.

 

• Plutarch: The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.

 

• B.B.King: The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

 

• George Iles: Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

 

• Euripides: Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

 

• Chinese Proverb: Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

 

• Abigail Adams: Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

 

• Leonardo Da Vinci: Learning never exhausts the mind.

 

• Confucius: Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous.

 

• Denis Waitley: 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.

 

• Greek Proverb: All things good to know are difficult to learn.

 

• Lloyd Alexander: We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

 

• Henry Ford: Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

 

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

 

• Ray LeBlond: You learn something every day if you pay attention.

 

• Thomas Huxley: Sit down before fact as a little child is prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

 

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

 

• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

 

• H.G. Wells: You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

 

• Thomas Szasz: Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

 

• Bill Vaughan: People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.

 

Education is still and remains the most important asset in anyone's life. It stimulates the creativity and expands the mind. 

In this section, we are sharing the wisdom of the people who have walked the earth before us: 

• The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson and every person I meet is my tutor. 

     - Craig Harper 

• “What is a tutor? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her/his best in order to discover what she already knows.

                                             - Paulo Coelho, the Witch of Portobello

• Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.

                                                                                                       - Jim Rohan

• 4. If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determine to learn, no one can stop you. 

 

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

                                                                                             -Nelson Mandela

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

                      - Leonardo da Vinci 

• “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.“

                                                      -Aristotle

• The Function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think creatively. Intelligence Plus Character – that is the goal of true education.          

                       -Martin Luther King Jr. 

• Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

 

• You learn something every day if you pay attention.

                                                                             - Ray LeBlond

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

                                                                                                  - Will Durant

• The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

 - B.B. King

• Sometimes it is better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens.

 

• “It is the supreme art of the tutor to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.“

 - Albert Einstein

• Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn. 

                                                                                                         - Benjamin Franklin 

• The mediocre tutor tells. The good tutor explains. The superior tutor demonstrates. The great tutor inspires. 

                                       - William Graser

• “Continue to grow and evolve.”

                                                                                   - Mahatma Gandhi

• The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

                                                                                     - William Deresiewicz

• If you think education is expensive. Try ignorance. 

                                                                        - African Proverb

• Leadership in education is about learning – The learning of others has to be at heart of the decision-making of any educational leader. 

 

• I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Gordon Ramsay

• To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

 - Thomas Jefferson

• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

• If youth knew; if age could.

 Sigmund Freud

• If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

• Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.

 Harvey Mackay

• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Bill Gates

• We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

• Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

James Cash Penney

• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

 Thomas Jefferson

• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

 Martin Luther King

• The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

 George Allen, Sr.

• The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

 George Allen, Sr.

• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

• The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

 George Allen, Sr.

• The true art of memory is the art of attention.

 Samuel Johnson

• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

 Jim Rohn

• Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

 Woody Allen

• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

• If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Noam Chomsky

• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Samuel Johnson

• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

 Samuel Johnson

• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

• The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson

• If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

• There's no abiding success without commitment.

 Tony Robbins

• I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

• The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

 Nate Silver

• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

 Benjamin Disraeli

• Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Epictetus

• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

 Steve Jobs

• Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

• Things do not change; we change.

 Henry David Thoreau

• 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

• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. –

Douglas Adams

• The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

Linus Torvalds

• I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Frederick Douglass

• In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Lee Iacocca

• Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

 Mike Ditka

• A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Martin Luther King

• What other people think about me is not my business.

 Michael J. Fox

• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

• If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas J. Watson

• "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

 

• "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

Abraham Lincoln

• "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

Vincent Van gogh

• "Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."

Abdul Kalam

• "A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

Gandhi

• "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

• "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

Bruce Lee

• "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

Woodrow Wilson

• "The starting point of all achievement is desire."

Napoleon Hill

 

• "You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time."

Rick Riordan

• "One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."

Johan Stuart mill

• "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."

John wooden.

• I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale

Florence nightingale