Quotes About Lifelong Learners

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Life is a classroom
only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

Zig Ziglar

#4. 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

#5. Today's world needs a workforce of creative, curious, and self-directed lifelong learners who are capable of conceiving and implementing novel ideas. Unfortunately, this is the type of student that the Prussian model actively suppresses.

Salman Khan

#6. It is better to know something about everything then everything about something

Blaise Pascal

#7. It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

Ginn Hale

#8. He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security guards at the Arab League or grab man-on-the-street from women at the market. This library work is easily his favorite part of reporting so far.

Tom Rachman

#9. Evil knows evil.

Zachary Smith

#10. Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

Ibrahim Rugova

#11. Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)

Rebecca Goldstein

#12. We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#13. In fact, the president was being portrayed as the perfect person in the situation and that damn sure wasn't the case. Hurt

Nako

#14. In life you need to take a risk.

Stefano Gabbana

#15. As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

Andy Warhol

#16. I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

Thomas Kinkade

#17. I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

David Shapiro

#18. The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

Ben Dreyfuss

#19. I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.

Christopher Doyle