Top 100 Learning Lifelong Quotes
#1. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel De Montaigne
#2. The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.
Jack Welch
#5. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.
Aaron B. Powell
#6. Learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners ... every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
Barbara Bush
#9. The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
#10. Learning makes you to stay forever young.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.
Hilarie Owen
#15. People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.
George Gilder
#17. We go to school for twelve or more years during our childhoods and early adulthoods, and then we're done. But when the pace of change gets this fast, the only way to retain a lifelong working capacity is to engage in lifelong learning.
Thomas L. Friedman
#18. Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
#20. I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. scientists are learning that people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they ever thought.
Carol S. Dweck
#24. People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Peter Senge
#26. I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning.
Ken Wyatt
#31. Learning how to learn is a lifelong process.
Kay Peterson
#33. Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.
Brian Tracy
#36. I read my eyes out and can't read half enough ... the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
John Adams
#39. The problem is the average person isnt tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they dont get it.
Jack Canfield
#44. You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.
Julia Child
#46. Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.
David Halberstam
#49. I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.
Rick Riordan
#50. All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
George Whitman
#51. I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.
Adrian Grenier
#52. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
#55. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
#57. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
M. Scott Peck
#58. Learning to write ... is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
Bret Lott
#60. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian Tracy
#62. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.
David W. Earle
#64. The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
Michel Legrand
#65. We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter F. Drucker
#68. The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.
Alfie Kohn
#71. It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#72. Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears
Eleanor Brownn
#73. There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.
Mark Strand
#74. I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.
Will Durant
#75. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
#77. It is only by giving our very best to the present; we will uphold the timeless future.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#78. Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.
Bryant McGill
#79. [T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
Sonia Sotomayor
#81. If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Henry Ford
#86. My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Chesley Sullenberger
#88. Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
Francis Ford Coppola
#89. And remember, following Christ is a lifelong journey. Christians are foot soldiers, so to speak. Always learning. Always growing stronger.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#90. The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E.Lee
#92. Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.
Jay Samit
#93. There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#95. What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.
Michael E. Gorman
#98. Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.
Don Tapscott
#100. The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.
Aletheia Luna