The Best Quotes About Lifelong Learning
I've collected thousands of quotes over the past 10+ years.
Here are the best ones I've found so far about lifelong learning...
“I remind myself every morning: nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So, if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.” -Larry King
“Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No matter what you've done up to this point, you better still be a student...It is a position that one has to assume for life. Learn from everyone and everything." -Ryan Holiday
"All learning is dependent on feedback. The faster the feedback, the faster you can learn. Thus, in many domains, the individual, team, or organization with the fastest feedback cycle is the one that wins." -James Clear
"As all born teachers, he was primarily a student." -Steven Pressfield, written about the character Dienekes in Gates of Fire
"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." -Julia Child
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." -Seneca
"At the highest levels, learning isn't something you do to prepare for your work. Learning is the most important work. It is the core competency to build. It's the thing you never delegate. And it's one of the ultimate drivers of long term performance and success." -Michael Simmons
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” -Abraham Lincoln
"A degree on a wall means you're educated as much as shoes on your feet mean you're walking. It's a start, but hardly sufficient." -Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
"Before you can radiate, you need to absorb." -James Cameron
“The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” -Padmasree Warrior
"Being wrong is the only way I feel sure I've learned anything." -Daniel Kahneman
"Comfort in learning is a paradox. You can't become truly comfortable with a skill until you've practiced it enough to master it. But practicing it before you master it is uncomfortable, so you often avoid it. Accelerating learning requires a second form of courage: being brave enough to use your knowledge as you acquire it." -Adam Grant
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde
"I never lose. I either win or I learn." -Nelson Mandela
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." -Albert Einstein
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi
"If we're serious about growth and improvement, we have no choice but to get good at learning from just about anyone." -Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen
"If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room. Hang out with, and learn from, people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people who will disagree with you." -Kevin Kelly
"If you're not embarrassed by what you thought last year, you need to learn more and faster. When you're really learning, you'll feel stupid and vulnerable—like a hermit crab between shells." -Derek Sivers
"The learning curve is the earning curve." -Josh Bersin
"The more you learn about something, the more there is to learn. You see what normal people don't see." -Derek Sivers
"As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." -John Wheeler
"The point of learning is to evolve your beliefs—not validate them." -Adam Grant
"You need to enter every conversation assuming that you have something to learn." -Celeste Headlee
"Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become." -Hal Elrod
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin
"Every next level of your life will require a different you." -Leonardo DiCaprio
"The people who have taught me the most in life do not view themselves as teachers, but rather as perpetual students, always eager to learn more and always open to changing their minds." -Rachel Held Evans
“The mark of a true professional isn’t flawless performance in familiar territory—it’s the willingness to become a student again at the edges of your competence.” -Jonathan Goodman
“Those who keep learning will keep rising in life.” -Charlie Munger
"Ignorance is a solvable problem...but it requires admitting the problem first. You can't learn what you think you know." -Ryan Holiday
"A student in a hurry learns the slowest." -Samurai teacher, to Banzo
"Curiosity, like gravity, is accelerative. The more you know, the more you want to know." -David McCullough
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” -Chinese Proverb
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