David McCullough Quotes

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

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

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.

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.

The smartest and most successful people I know are the people who are constantly evolving, always learning. It does not end with school.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.