20 of my favorite inspirational quotes on learning and education. Seems to fit with this month’s theme of celebrating learners! Enjoy! 

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. – Robert Frost

We learn from failure, not from success.  – Bram Stoker, Dracula

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. – Isaac Asimov

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

inspirational quotes, learning, education, Albert EinsteinEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  – Albert Einstein 

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

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.  – Confucius

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.  – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience and learn from it. Life is never dull.  – Oprah Winfrey

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.  – Bruce Lee

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

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. – Carl Rogers

The whole object of education is to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. – Sherwood Anderson

Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself. – Robert Heinlein

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Gandhi

Intelligence plus character: that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King Jr.