Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

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

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

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

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

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.

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.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

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

My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

I think you never stop learning.

You keep learning all the time.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

I grow old learning something new every day.

I'm always learning. I have to.

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.