19 Quotes To Encourage Lifelong Learning
By Danni White on March 18, 2016
By Danni White on March 18, 2016
Learning is a lifelong process. No matter how long you live or how many degrees you earn in life, there will always be something you don't know. In this vast world of ever increasing technology, it is important to keep an open mind and an eye out for learning opportunities. Lifelong learning is the self-motivated pursuit of knowledge. There are countless possibilities to learn something new in this world and many people who are willing to teach you what they know. All you have to do is be open, be teachable, ask questions, and explore.
To help motivate you just a bit, here are 19 quotes to help encourage lifelong learning:
To help motivate you just a bit, here are 19 quotes to help encourage lifelong learning:
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
Socrates
Socrates
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
"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
Michel de Montaigne
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
"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
Gordon B. Hinckley
"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
John Adams
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
"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
Brian Tracy
"Never discourage anyone … who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
Plato
Plato
"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 Drucker
Peter Drucker
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
George Whitman
"Self-education is lifelong curiosity."
Lailah Gifty Akita
Lailah Gifty Akita
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."
John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner
"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
"Almost anything can become a learning experience if there is enough caring involved."
Mary MacCracken
Mary MacCracken
"Learning is an active process. We learn by doing … Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind."
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
"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
Clay P. Bedford
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