Quotes & Sayings About Lifelong Learning

[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

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Can you imagine a world without books to read? — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The path of light is quest for knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. — Socrates

I am still young to keep learning. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning. — Don Tapscott

You can learn at any age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Read a short story every day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

I live within the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn. — Joichi Ito

Intelligent assistance involves leveraging artificial intelligence to enable the government, individual companies, and the nonprofit social sector to develop more sophisticated online and mobile platforms that can empower every worker to engage in lifelong learning on their own time, and to have their learning recognized and rewarded with advancement. Intelligent assistants arise when we use artificial intelligence to improve the interfaces between humans and their tools with software, so humans can not only learn faster but also act faster and act smarter. Lastly, we need to deploy AI to create more intelligent algorithms, or what Reid Hoffman calls "human networks" - so that we can much more efficiently connect people to all the job opportunities that exist, all the skills needed for each job, and all the educational opportunities to acquire those skills cheaply and easily. — Thomas L. Friedman

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. — M. Scott Peck

The wise shall learn. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein

God does not merely require our petitions but our selves, and no one who begins the hard, lifelong trek of prayer knows yet who they are. Nothing but prayer will ever reveal you to yourself, because only before God can you see and become your true self. To paraphrase something is to get the gist of it and make it accessible. Prayer is learning who you are before God and giving him your essence. Prayer means knowing yourself as well as God. — Timothy Keller

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

Living is about learning. It is a lifelong quest. — Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

...avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I have always believed and promoted the fact that education and access to the knowledge society involves lifelong learning. — Ken Wyatt

Reading is a beautiful paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am learning to appreciate the gift of the moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Ancient literature is a rich history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's the difference between utility and virtue. Many policy makers now think of education in functional terms. It's about learning skills that will help students find employment - such as using a word processor or spreadsheet. Yet what about helping people to figure out the meaning of life? Or become good people? Or make a difference to others? Is education for a stage in life, completed once we find jobs, or should it be a lifelong pursuit? — Alister E. McGrath

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So, at a minimum, our educational systems must be retooled to maximize these needed skills and attributes: strong fundamentals in writing, reading, coding, and math; creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration; grit, self-motivation, and lifelong learning habits; and entrepreneurship and improvisation - at every level. The — Thomas L. Friedman

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning. — Jack Welch

Learning has no end until the day of death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are never old to begin self-seeking. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Reflection and learning are lifelong processes ... — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Read to find life treasures — Lailah Gifty Akita

Learning how to learn is a lifelong process. — Kay Peterson

Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears — Eleanor Brownn

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it. — Brian Tracy

Passion for books is the desire to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur plays for them, encourage pursuit of special interests, prompted them to write essays on their readings, and urge them to recite poetry. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

We travel to ancient times by reading history books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Read to refresh your mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. — Michel Legrand

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Education leads to intellectual life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy. — Will Durant

An aspiring writer could be forgiven for thinking that learning to write is like negotiating an obstacle course in boot camp, with a sergeant barking at you for every errant footfall. Why not think of it instead as a form of pleasurable mastery, like cooking or photography? Perfecting the craft is a lifelong calling, and mistakes are part of the game. Though the quest for improvement may be informed by lessons and honed by practice, it must first be kindled by a delight in the best work of the masters and a desire to approach their excellence. — Steven Pinker

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

scientists are learning that people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they ever thought. — Carol S. Dweck

When A Man Is Trying To Win The Heart Of A Woman,He Studies Her.He Learns Her Likes,Dislikes,Habits And Hobbies.But After He Wins Her Heart And Marries Her,He Often Stops Learning About Her.If The Amount He Studied Her Before Marriage Was Equal To A High School Degree,He Should Continue To Learn About Her Until He Gains A College Degree,A Master's Degree And Ultimately A Doctorate Degree.It Is A Lifelong Journey That Draws His Heart Ever Closer To Hers. — Jennifer Dion

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

Average is officially over. When I graduated from college I got to find a job; my girls have to invent theirs. I attended college to learn skills for life, and lifelong learning for me afterward was a hobby. My girls went to college to learn the skills that could garner them their first job, and lifelong learning for them is a necessity for every job thereafter. — Thomas L. Friedman

You ought to learn as best as you can. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The world of books is heavenly paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Explore the endless possibilities in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience. — Adrian Grenier

All I have learned, I learned from books. — Abraham Lincoln

Begin to pursue your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is only by giving our very best to the present; we will uphold the timeless future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books is a heavenly paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Learning to write ... is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest. — Bret Lott

Knowledge is intellectual art. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Walk gently, and be brave. — Eleanor Brownn

Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution. — Bryant McGill

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

Education is lifelong learning adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

Why don't you dare the impossible? — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we read, the better we are informed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Learning makes you to stay forever young.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment. — Jay Samit

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

What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don't have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. — Carol S. Dweck

Find the willpower to begin work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am determined to be a lifelong learner. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

I will keep reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
a part of our lives? — Alan Kay

An adult friend of Lincoln's: Life was to him a school. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated. — Michael E. Gorman

I simply stepped out of the way and maintained my courage and my position in the face of constant disagreement, voiced opinion and attack. I held true and I stood my ground. I maintained my convictions and my commitment to allowing them to live in the kingdom of childhood. I protected them from outside influence and allowed their imaginations to soar. I instilled a lifelong love of learning in them and I shared my passion for reading. I allowed them to choose what they wanted to study and I provided the resources for them to delve in, unguided and undisturbed for however long they needed to gather what they believed to be enough understanding to satisfy their own personal drive. — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. — Samuel Johnson

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher. — George Whitman