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Quotes on learning and staying curious for life. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest learning quotes ever written — from Anne Frank, Mahatma Gandhi, Samuel Johnson and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Broken hearts hurt, but they also teach us what love truly means.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.

— Anne Frank

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

— Samuel Johnson

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

We learn more from the winds of adversity than from the smooth seas of prosperity.

— Seneca

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

— Aristotle

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Learning never exhausts the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.

— Plato

From one learn all.

— Virgil

Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.

— William Wordsworth

Practice makes perfect.

— English Proverb

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Benjamin Franklin

To err is human; to forgive, divine — and to learn is the most human of all.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

— Chinese Proverb

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

— Albert Einstein

I never lose. I either win or learn.

— Nelson Mandela

No man was ever wise by chance.

— Seneca

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

— Mark Twain

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

— Winston Churchill

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

— W. B. Yeats

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

— Confucius

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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