Quotes About Learning

It's almost been worth this depression to find out how little our big men know.

People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." -Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Nothing makes a man broad minded like adversity.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You know no nation has a monopoly on good things, each one has something that the others could well afford to adopt.

You can give people a fish; you can teach them how to fish; or you can create the conditions where people would teach themselves to fish.

What are you reading? isn't a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it's really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity about other people that he had the ability to make everyone around him feel smart and well-read.

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.

Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us uneasy, and they had also always given us something to talk about when we were stressed or anxious.

reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.

I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.

I become influenced while I'm reading. I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started. Brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life.

all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for their children.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying

I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started. Brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life. So I like to ask; How is this book changing mine?

they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris Murdoch and Alan Bennett. They could all be readers, and maybe even uncommon ones.

When we denigrate mediocrity, we discourage ourselves and others from trying new things. It would be great to be a great painter, but it's also great just to paint. Or sing or throw pots or knit scarves or play chess.

Reading is the best way I know to learn how to examine your life. By comparing what you've done to what others have done, and your thoughts and theories and feelings to those of others, you learn about yourself and the world around you. Perhaps that is why reading is one of the few things you do alone that can make you feel less alone. It is a solitary activity that connects you to others.

Really, whenever you read something wonderful, it changes your life, even if you aren't aware of it.