Quotes About Inspiration

Education brightens a darkened world.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be.

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.