Patricia Polacco Quotes

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

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

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

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

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.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

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

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

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

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

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.

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

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.