Lifelong Learner Quotes:

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Success, Education, Inspirational Graphic Design, Taking Risks

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Staying Young, Stay In School

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

- Doris Lessing

source: DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

topic: Education, Learning, Understanding, Inspirational Learning, Learning Life

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Education, Learning, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

- Vernon Howard

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Live And Learn, Inspirational Learning

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

source: "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Futurist, Learning To Read

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

- John Wooden

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Sports Coaching

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Wise, Teaching, Inspirational Learning, Intellectual Curiosity

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Education, Inspirational Education, Spiritual Education

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

- Confucius

source: "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

topic: Wisdom, Attitude, Crazy, Live And Learn, Knowledge And Wisdom

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

- Henry Ford

topic: Experience, Sometimes, Realizing, Good Character, Model T

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

- Moshe Arens

topic: Mind, Life Is, Young, Staying Young, Knowledge And Learning

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge And Ignorance, Stupidity And Ignorance

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

- Claude Bernard

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Learning, Lifelong Learner, Teaching And Learning

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

- Henry Latham Doherty

source: Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”

topic: Children, Mean, Learning, Life Learning, Learning Life

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Hungry For Knowledge

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

- Donald A. Norman

topic: Arbitrary, Schedules, Should, Lifelong Learner

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Inspirational Education

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Motivational, Success, Education, Life Wisdom, Knowledge And Wisdom

Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY.

- Shiv Khera

source: FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jan 26, 2015

topic: Knowledge And Ignorance, Stupidity And Ignorance, Lifelong Learner, Unwilling, Poor Richard

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Cute, Positive, Leadership, Life Philosophy, Inspirational Tattoo

Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, no matter the time of day. Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

- Donald A. Norman

topic: Teacher, Wish, Location, Lifelong Learner, Easy Access

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

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Moving, Class, Life Is, Lifelong Learner

We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.

- Lily Eskelsen Garcia

topic: Teacher, Educational, Believe, Lifelong Learner

. . . 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

topic: Learning, America, Important, Lifelong Learner