Immanuel Kant Quotes

One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day.

Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

I find each project, although it's compartmentalized, informs me in some facet. I wake up everyday wanting to be informed.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

A truly educated man never ceases to learn.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.