Orison Swett Marden Quotes

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

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

Take advantage of educating yourself.

I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

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.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.