This document contains 101 inspirational quotes about learning from various famous figures. It is an ebook created by Learning Pool to provide motivational quotes to the hospitality industry about the importance and benefits of continuous learning. The quotes are grouped into sections and cover topics like the lifelong nature of learning, learning from mistakes or difficulties, learning from others, and learning as a social and collaborative process.

1. 101
Inspirational
Learning
Quotes for the
Hospitality
Industry

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3. Contents
Introduction 4
101 Inspirational Learning Quotations 5
About Learning Pool 110

4. Everyone’s approach to learning is different. Introduction
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We understand the difficulties of getting people engaged and excited about
learning something new. That’s why we’ve pulled together some of our
favourite inspirational quotations on learning in this e-book.
The quotes are from famous scholars and philosophers, actors and writers
and political leaders. Despite their various backgrounds they all show that,
although it may not always be easy, great learning can be accomplished
through individual dedication.

5. Live like you’ll
die tomorrow,
learn like you’ll
live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of the Indian nationalist movment,1869 – 1948

6. Nothing builds
self-esteem and
self-confidence like
accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Writer & Historian, 1795 – 1881

7. To change your
reality you
have to change
your inner
thoughts
David Bohm
Physicist,1917 – 1992

8. Learning is a social process that occurs through
interpersonal interaction within a cooperative context.
Individuals, working together, construct shared
understandings and knowledge.
David Johnson, Roger Johnson and Karl Smith
Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, Edina, MN: Interaction Book Co. 1991

9. Personally I’m
always ready to
learn, although
I do not always
like being
taught.
Winston Churchill
British Politician & Statesman, 1874 – 1965

10. ‘‘ ‘‘
Memorisation is what we
resort to when what we
are learning makes no
sense.
Anonymous

11. I am learning all the time. Eartha Kitt
Actress,1927 - 2008
The tombstone will be
my diploma.

12. ‘‘
It is what we think we
know already that often
prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard
French Physiologist,1813 – 1878
‘‘

13. The trouble is that thinking
looks like loafing.
Who wants to pay people for
daydreaming?
W. Somerset Maughan
Playwright & Novelist,1874 – 1965

14. ‘‘
Attempt the impossible
‘‘
in order to improve your
work.
Bette Davis
Actress, 1908 – 1989

15. Willa Cather
Author,1873 – 1947
There are some things you
learn best in calm, and some
in storm.

16. ‘‘
dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste
not the Pierian
spring.
‘‘
A little learning is a
Alexander Pope
Poet, 1688 – 1744

17. Anyone who stops learning is old,
whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford
American Industrialist, 1863 -1947

18. ‘‘
Read Read Read Read Read Read Read everything you can read and
Learn Learn Learn Learn Learn Learn Learn everything you can
learn because there is no tomorrow like today and today like
‘‘
tomorrow.
The Violent Femmes
Lack of Knowledge lyrics from the album Why Do Birds Sing? 1991

19. Nothing in life is to be feared;
it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Physicist/Chemist,1867 – 1934

20. ‘‘
The only thing that
interferes with my
learning is my
education.
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist,1879 – 1955
‘‘

21. A single conversation
with a wise man is better
than ten years of study.
Chinese Proverb, Date Unknown

22. ‘‘
Leadership and
learning are
indispensable to each
‘‘
other.
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States, 1917 – 1963

23. Abilgail Adams
Former First Lady of the United States,1744 - 1818
‘‘
Learning is not
attained by chance,
it must be sought
for with ardor and
‘‘
attended to with
diligence.

24. ‘‘
‘‘
Good teaching is
one-fourth preparation
and three-fourths theatre.
Gail Godwin
Novelist, b.1937

25. ‘‘
‘‘
The best of my education has come from the public library...
my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a
day for an overdue book. You don’t need to know very much
to start with, if you know the way to the public library. li-
brary.
Lesley Conger
Writer, 1922 - 2010

26. ‘‘
The learning and
knowledge that we have,
is, at the most, but little
compared with that of
which we are ignorant.
‘‘
Plato
Philosopher, 424/423 – 348/347 BC

27. ‘‘
Learning without
thought is labor lost;
thought without
learning is perilous.
Confucius
Philosopher, 551BC - 479BC
‘‘

28. None of us is as smart as all of us.
‘‘
Eric Schmidt
Former Executive Chairman of Google, b.1955

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30. ‘‘
I think it is good that books still exist,
but they do make me sleepy.
Frank Zappa
Composer/Singer-Songwriter,1940 – 1993

31. ‘‘
Learning never
exhausts the mind.
‘‘
Leonardo da Vinci
Painter & Sculptor, 1452 – 1519

32. That is what learning
is. You suddenly
understand something
you’ve understood all
‘‘
‘‘
your life, but in a new
way.
Doris Lessing
Writer, b.1919

33. ‘‘
Your most unhappy
customers are your
greatest source of
learning.
Bill Gates
‘‘
Co-Founder of Microsoft & Philanthropist, b.1955

34. ‘‘
Only the curious will
learn and only the
resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient
has always excited me
more than the
‘‘
intelligence quotient.
Eugene S. Wilson
Former Dean of Admission at Amherst
College,1905 – 1981

35. ‘‘
incapable must Man be
of learning from
experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856 -1950
‘‘
If history repeats itself,
and the unexpected
always happens, how

36. ‘‘
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell
‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out
how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States,1901 - 1909
‘‘

37. ‘‘ ‘‘
Like success, failure is many things to many people.
With Positive Mental Attitude, failure
is a learning experience, a rung on the
ladder, a plateau at which to get your
thoughts in order and prepare to
try again.
W. Clement Stone
Businessman & Author,1902 – 2002

38. ‘‘
Vilfredo Pareto
Engineer, Economist & Philosopher, 1848 – 1923

39. ‘‘
‘‘
I don’t love studying.
I hate studying. I like
learning. Learning is
beautiful.
Natalie Portman
Actress, b.1981

40. ‘‘ neither
Learning is not compulsory... is
survival.
‘‘
W. Edwards Deming
Statistician, 1900 - 1993

41. ‘‘ He who has imagination without
learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
Essayist, 1754 - 1824

42. ‘‘
An education isn’t how much you have
committed to memory, or even how much
‘‘
you know. It’s being able to differentiate between
what you do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France
Poet & Novelist, 1844 - 1924

43. ‘‘
‘‘
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional
event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that
serves us - and those around us - more effectively.
Look for the learning. Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, 1832 – 1888

44. ‘‘
Reading furnishes the mind only with
materials of knowledge; it is thinking
that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
Philosopher and Physician, 1632 - 1704
‘‘

45. ‘‘
Life is about
learning; when
you stop
learning,
you die.
‘‘
Tom Clancy
Author, b.1947

46. ‘‘
‘‘
‘‘
The ink of the scholar is more sacred
than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed
Founder of the Islamic Religion, 570 - 632

47. ‘‘
Reading is to the mind what exercise is
to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
Writer, Politician & Co-Founder of The Spectator March, 1672 – 1729

48. Samuel Johnson
Author,1709 - 1784, taken from Boswell’s Life of Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a
subject ourselves, or we know where we
can find information on it.

49. ‘‘ ‘‘
Sit down before fact as a little
child, be prepared to give up
every conceived notion, follow
humbly wherever and
whatever abysses nature
leads, or you will learn
nothing.
Thomas Huxley
Biologist,1825 – 1895

50. ‘‘ Man’s mind, once
stretched by a new
idea, never regains its
original dimensions.
‘‘
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Physician & Author, 1809 -1894

51. ‘‘
always been known
‘‘
Creative minds have
to survive any kind of
bad training.
Anna Freud
Psychoanalyst,1895 – 1982

52. Martin H. Fischer
Physician & Author,1879 – 1962
‘‘
All the world is a
laboratory to the
inquiring mind.

53. ‘‘
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but rather the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Poet & Playwright, 1865 – 1939

54. ‘‘
Knowledge
is
‘‘
power.
Sir Francis Bacon
Philosopher, 1561 - 1626

55. ‘‘ A well-informed mind is
the best security against
the contagion of folly
and of vice.
The vacant mind is ever
on the watch for relief,
and ready to plunge into
error, to escape from the
languor of idleness.
‘‘
Ann Radcliffe
Author, Taken from The Mysteries of Udolpho, (1794), 1764 – 1823

56. ‘‘ 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
Mathematician & Biologist, 1908 – 1974

57. A good head and
a good heart are
always a formidable
combination.
Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa. b 1918

58. ‘‘
‘‘
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
Playwright, Taken from Trachiniae, 496 BC - 406 BC

59. Paul Eldridge
(Novelist & Poet, 1888 - 1982)
Paul Eldridge
Novelist & Poet, 1888 - 1982
‘‘
‘‘
‘‘
In the spider-web of
facts, many a truth is
strangled.

60. ‘‘
William Shakespeare
Poet & Playwright,1564 - 1616
A fool thinks himself
to be wise, but a wise
man knows himself
‘‘
to be a fool.

61. ‘‘
Great things are not
accomplished by
those who yield to
trends and fads and
popular opinion.
‘‘
Jack Kerouac
Novelist & Poet,1922 – 1969

62. Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance
‘‘
is to drop back.
Chinese Proverb, Date Unknown

63. The foundation of every
The foundation of every
state is the education of
state is the education of
its youth.
its youth.
Diogenes Laertius
Biographer of the Greek philosophers, Date Unknown

64. ‘‘
Go to the people.
Learn from them.
Live with them.
Start with what they know.
‘‘
Build with what they have.
The best of leaders when
the job is done, when the
task is accomplished,
the people will say we have
done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Philosopher & Author of Tao Te Ching, Date Unknown

65. ‘‘
The great aim of education is
not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher, 1820 - 1903

66. ‘‘
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden
Basketball player & Coach, 1910 – 2010

67. ‘‘
‘‘
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1706 - 1790

68. Do not worry about your problems with
mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist,1879 – 1955

69. Modern learning is the key to
good modern public services.
‘‘
Mary McKenna
Director & Co- Founder of Learning Pool, 2011

70. ‘‘We don’t need no education, We don’t need
no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the
classroom, Teacher leave them kids alone, Hey
teacher leave them kids alone. All in all you’re
just another brick in the wall.
Pink Floyd,
Band, Another Brick in the Wall lyrics from the album The Wall, 1979

71. ‘‘
Genius is one percent
inspiration and
ninety-nine percent
‘‘
perspiration.
Thomas Edison
Inventor, Scientist & Businessman,1847 – 1931

72. You learn something
every day if you pay
attention. ‘‘
Ray LeBlond
Biologist, 1910 – 2007

73. ‘‘
Always walk through
life as if you have
something new to
‘‘
learn and you will.
Vernon Howard
Author, Teacher & Philosopher,1918 -1992

74. We need to bring learning
to people instead of
people to learning.
‘‘
Elliott Masie
Learning, Training & Technology Anaylst, Date Unknown

75. ‘‘
One must learn by doing the thing;
for though you think you know it, you
have no certainty, until you try.
Dudley Field Malone
Attorney & Politician, 1882 – 1950

76. ‘‘
‘‘
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Novelist & Poet,1882 – 1941

77. ‘‘
The biggest adventure
you can ever take is
to live the life of your
dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Television Host, Producer & Philanthropist, b.1954

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Dorothy Parker
Poet & Critic,1893 – 1967

79. The brain is wider
‘‘
than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
Poet, 1830 – 1886

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Epictetus
Philosopher, 55 AD - 135 AD

81. ‘‘
‘‘
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from
whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
George Herbert Palmer
American educator, philosopher, and author,1842 - 1933

82. ‘‘
Everything
you can
imagine
‘‘
is real.
Pablo Picasso
Painter & Sculptor, 1881 – 1973

83. Tony Robbins
Author, b.1960
‘‘
‘‘
Successful people ask
better questions,
and as a result, they get
better answers.

84. ‘‘
There is more
treasure in books
than in all the
pirate’s loot on
Treasure Island.
‘‘
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company, 1901 – 1966

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‘‘ Sir Ken Robinson
Author on Education, Creativity and Innovation, b.1950

86. ‘‘
Never tell people
how to do things.
Tell them what to
do and they will
surprise you with
George Patton,
their ingenuity. United States Army Officer,1885 – 1945

87. The mediocre teacher
tells. The good teacher
explains. The superior
teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher
‘‘
inspires.
William Arthur Ward
Writer, 1921 – 1994

88. The beautiful thing
about learning is
that no one can take
it away from you
‘‘
BB King
Blues Guitarist & Songwriter, b.1925

89. ‘‘ Develop
a passion
for learning.
If you do,
you will ‘‘
never cease
to grow.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
Author & Chief Visionary Officer of Collegiate
EmPowerment, b.1972

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Robert Brault
Writer, b.1963

91. ‘‘
An investment
in knowledge
always pays
the best
interest.
Benjamin Franklin
‘‘
‘‘
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1706 - 1790

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Alec Bourne
Doctor & Writer, 1886 – 1974

93. ‘‘
‘‘
Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you
can’t see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is
not always the quickest way to success.
Donald Clark
e-learning thought leader, speaker and writer, Date Unknown

94. ‘‘
‘‘
The more you read, the more things
The more you read, the more things
The more you read, the more things
you will know. The more that you
you will know. The more that you
you will know. The more that you
learn, the more places you’ll go.
learn, the more places you’ll go.
learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr Seuss
Writer, Poet & Cartoonist, 1904 – 1991

95. ‘‘ Failures are
finger posts
‘‘
on the road to
achievement.
C.S Lewis
Author, 1898 – 1963

96. I don’t think much of a man who
is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States, 1861 - 1865

97. ‘‘
Beware of the
man who works
hard to learn
something,
‘‘
learns it, and
finds himself no
wiser than
before.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Novelist, 1922 – 2007

98. The only good is knowledge
and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
Philosopher,469 – 399 BC

99. Try to learn something
about everything and
everything about
something.
Thomas Hardy
Novelist & Poet, 1840 – 1928

100. Learning professionals
need to be
thinking
about creating learning
EXPERIENCES
rather than learning content.
Charles Jennings
e-learning thought leader, speaker and writer,
Date Unknown

101. ‘‘
His priority did not seem to be
to teach them what he knew, but
rather to impress upon them that
nothing, not even... knowledge,
was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling,
Author, Taken from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
b.1965 ‘‘

102. Education consists mainly of
what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
Author,1835 – 1910

103. ‘‘
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance
but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable
to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent
than college professors.
Maya Angelou
Author & Poet, b.1928

104. ‘‘
Everybody
is ignorant,
Will Rogers
Actor, Radio Personality,
Newspaper Columnist,1879 – 1935
only on
different
‘‘
subjects.

105. ‘‘
‘‘
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 L. Doherty
Businessman, 1870 - 1939

106. ‘‘
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory,
Socrates the other perpetual.
Philosopher,469 – 399 BC

107. ‘‘
‘‘
Revolution is internal, Help yourself at any time,
Evolution isn’t over, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No, We’re
about to use our mind...
Gogol Bordello
Band, Raise The Knowledge Lyrics from the album, Trans-Continental Hustle, 2010

108. ‘‘
You can teach a
student a lesson for
a day; but if you can
teach him to learn by
creating curiosity,
he will continue the
learning process as
long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
Industrialist, Engineer & Manager, 1903 - 1991

109. I am
still
learning.
‘‘
Michelangelo
Painter, Sculptor & Architect, 1475 – 1564

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