John Henry Newman Quotes

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilized men's eyes.

I don't want to be just sitting on the couch in front of the TV all the time. I want to be learning stuff.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

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

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

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

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

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

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.

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

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

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

You have to learn and keep learning.

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.