Quotes About Learning

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

There are some things we might not know, but that doesn't mean we should give up. We can find out what we need to know. We can find out everything

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.