Sharon Van Etten Quotes

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My own, purely personal view is that reading, study, poetry, and scientific experiment might be more rewarding than a job or children, so I would never advise anyone against university if they're going for the right reasons.

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

I've always been a student, so I want to learn.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

So few grow, because so few study.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Continue to study and learn new skills.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.