Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

I grow old learning something new every day.

You never can stop learning.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

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.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Always educate yourself.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Every day you learn something new.

Take advantage of educating yourself.