Everybody needs some sort of stimulus when it comes to learning because not everyone is naturally drawn to this process. So, sometimes, maybe some very neat, bright and funny learning quotes might help. They don’t stand a comparison to chocolate, cookies, good loving or good movies or other types of compensatory devices you might have invented for yourself because they address exclusively your intelligence. However, they did provide the motivation and inspiration I needed to keep up the good work so I just thought I should share them with the willing-to-learn masses.

1.    “We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.” said Plato at one time or another during his lifetime. The classic Greek philosopher and mathematician might have known something about intelligence and intuition, but expressed this rather bizarre theory into words. It might be a reflection of a belief in reincarnation, a state in which a soul passes through several bodies, each time forgetting what it has learned in the previous body, but always being able to relearn or refresh ones memory with the juiciness of studying.

2.    “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” This rather paradoxical learning quote has been said by the famous German physicist Albert Einstein, probably the most well publicized scientific figure of the twenty first century. What do you mean education keeps me back from my learning? You would naturally ask yourself. Well, he either tried to make a cunning joke or … he felt that the educational system was too rigid to teach students what they needed or what they actually wanted to learn. A smart man chooses his trajectory and learns mostly what he feels will be useful in his development for the future. Even though your ultimate goal is to become a successful politician, you might find that knowing history, economics and taking some dance lessons could come in handy in your later career.

3.    “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” This was said by the much regretted John F. Kennedy and it revels how knowledge ultimately gives you a head start in any field you might be interested in, especially if you want to become a good leader. This learning quote shows how interconnected this two notions are, how you must ascertain one to get to the other. Also, as a plus, learning opens your mind and expands your horizons.

4.    “Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” Ha-ha, you’ll think when you read this irony dropped by Oscar Wilde. The fabulous Irish author, even though he appreciated the value of a high-class education, he frequently enjoyed showing discontent for the things he genuinely admired. But this time he mocks the teachers as well and puts them into a category where nobody ever wants to be – with those who can no longer grow through learning.

5.    “You cannot open a book without learning something.” This quote has a more serene and positive approach to learning as it should because it was said by the ancient Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius who advocated strong family loyalty, the respect of ones ancestors and he considered a family to be the ideal basis for government. To interpret more fully his intentions, he thought that any new read and any new experience enriches your life if you know how to assimilate them properly.

6.    “It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.” Henry David Thoreau was a prolific American writer and sometimes a contested figure because of his unusual beliefs. I think he wanted to separate the theoretical way of learning, by knowing facts and logically deducing mechanisms and coming up with conclusions and approaching science by doing things more empirically, by taking the time to experiment. By drawing this very clear line, he separated forever in thought the learning and the knowing, distinguishing knowing to be a much superior process, a process which ends up relying very much on the instinctual.   

7.    “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” Rabindranath Tagore was a very interesting figure, you see he was a bit like Leonardo Da Vinci, in the sense that he knew a little bit of everything. He knew music and poetry, he even wrote for the Bengali two national anthems. The man was a metaphor, a translucent appearance who remains a mystery even now. But as it seems, he has a real feel for the learning quotes, giving probably the best advice in this entire list: never restrain your child’s learning to the confinements of previous eras. Let him benefit by what you, as a parent, did not receive.

In conclusion, I am very glad I did a little research on this subject because I don’t ever want to stop learning, but for that I will always need a little bit of encouragement and motivation in the form of my trusty learning quotes. But what I found most interesting of all is that so many different attitudes exit towards learning that I would have never even suspected they existed.

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