W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It is always in season for old men to learn.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

I grow old learning something new every day.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

As long as you're learning you're not old.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

Education is the best provision for old age.

You only stop learning when you quit.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.

If I don't learn something every single day, it's a wasted day.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

Always desire to learn something useful.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

I have an appetite to always learn.