Norton Juster Quotes

I grow old learning something new every day.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

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.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

How slowly one comes to understand anything!

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Education forms the common mind.

Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.