Inspirational Learning Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

  Geoffrey Willans

  Inspiration, Learning, German Language

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

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• Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

  Alvin Toffler

  Education, Learning, Chinese

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Communication, Inspiration

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• Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• "The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

  Michel Legrand

  Education, Life And Love, Realizing

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• The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Education, Fear, Military

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• The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Moshe Arens

  Life, Learning, Mind

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• The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Knowledge, Realizing

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• In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Wise, Teaching

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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  Learning never exhausts the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

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• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

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• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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