Lifelong Learning Quotes

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford

“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
― Michel Legrand

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein

“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, The Complete Essays

“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, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
― Julia Child

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

“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, Way to Be!: 9 Ways To Be Happy And Make Something Of Your Life

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
― Robert E. Lee

“All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.”
― George Whitman

“Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.
Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“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

“Self-education is lifelong curiosity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The amazing thing about a long journey is that you can miss exits, run Stop signs, head the wrong way down a one-way street, get lost, misplace your keys, find them, make a U-turn,
and still, somehow, miraculously reach your proper destination.”
― Eleanor Brownn

“David Newell--Mr. McFeely--notes that "Fred really wanted people to grow; that was a big word in his vocabulary. He was always growing--growing emotionally, growing educationally. ...”
― Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

“Read daily to renew your mind.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Schools normally schedule one subject, for example, Japanese, the first period, when you just do Japanese; then, say, arithmetic the second period, when you just do arithmetic. But here it was quite different. At the beginning of the first period, the teacher made a list of all the problems and questions in the subjects to be studied that day. Then she would say, “Now, start with any of these you like.” […] This method of teaching enabled the teachers to observe - as the children progressed to higher grades - what they were interested in as well as their way of thinking and their character. It was an ideal way of teachers to really get to know their pupils.”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

“That word, which has an almost entirely pejorative meaning today as a hopelessly superficial dabbler, is derived from the Italian dilettare, which means “to delight.” As the art historian Bruce Redford notes, “dilettante”—one who exhibits delight—entered English with the formation of the Society of Dilettanti, an eighteenth-century group of Englishmen who had returned from the grand tour brimming with enthusiasm for Continental art and culture. As the process of acquiring knowledge gradually became more specialized, Redford notes, the meaning of the word shifted. By the time George Eliot wrote Middlemarch in the early 1870s, the word had become an insult.”
― Tom Vanderbilt, Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

“Kindness is not an option, it’s an obligation.”
― Mac Alvi A. R

“Your thoughts can easily influence your mindset leading to bad or good decisions.”
― Wazim Shaw

“There is so much to learn from failure than from success.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“Learning new skills is one way we can rewrite the story of our lives. Whether it is to pursue a different career, for our own intellectual curiosity, or to strengthen our ability to focus, monotasking learning can be very rewarding.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“. . . focusing solely on cultural competency can lead to undesired consequences. . . the term implies that one has learned everything they need to learn about a certain culture or group of people, when in fact learning is a never-ending process.”
― Snigdha Nandipati, A Case of Culture: How Cultural Brokers Bridge Divides in Healthcare

“Every day I used my power of concentration, indulged my pleasure in lifelong learning, and kept up my hope that this credential would further bolster my expertise. Stepping into each day with this focus turned my attitude from despair to anticipation.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“For some I have been a God sent blessing but for most I am a God damn lesson”
― Renee' A. Lee