Christian de Duve Quotes

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

I think once you stop learning, you're going to stop growing.

I've never stopped learning.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Always educate yourself.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

There is no time to cease learning. Only after you have closed the lid on the coffin does learning cease.

It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that…. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

I think the things that I learned that stick with me are things you often repeat, even today, which is never stop learning.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

You always need to be curious and study.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.