Peter Drucker Quotes

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

You have to learn and keep learning.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

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

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.