Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Read books. They are good for us.

Exterminate learning and there will be no more worries.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

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

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Every day, I get a little smarter.

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Few things are as essential as education.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.