Gustave Flaubert Quotes

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

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.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Always educate yourself.

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

I love learning new techniques.