T. S. Eliot Quotes

I feel like I'm sort of afraid to study too much because I feel like I work as I go, but I want to study the classics and also the technical aspects of things. I'm always looking to understand more.

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.

I had to be - I was in school for probably three or four years before I began taking courses in history and political science, and I just started to realize how big the world was. I mean, when I arrived in college, I didn't know anything.

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.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.

The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.