Thomas Merton Quotes

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I feel like I'm constantly learning. Constantly trying to grow.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.

I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

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

You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

It's funny, I really feel like I've learned a lot in my career but I still feel like a child. Like, an 11-year-old? I think it will be like that all my life, actually.

I think I'm always learning, I'm always trying to be at my best.

As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.

I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.

Once you let yourself believe that you've gotten to the top, you've lost sight of the real goal. Which is to keep climbing no matter what. And by climbing, I don't mean trying to out do yourself with even more accomplishments. Instead, what I mean is that just when we think we have done something well, we should start looking at the other areas of our lives that need attention.