George Edward Woodberry Quotes

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

Always desire to learn something useful.

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

You only stop learning when you quit.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

It is better to learn late than never.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

…it is only after our physical and political needs are supplied, and when we are free from necessary duties and cares, that we are in a condition for desiring to see, to hear, and to learn.

Great is the study that brings us into action.