David Krumholtz Quotes

Read books and keep informed. The conversation can get old if you don't have some good new topics to bring to the table.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

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

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Exterminate learning and there will be no more worries.

The temptation to inculcate rather than to educate is understandably strong among long frustrated populations. In many such places, public emotions fluctuate between bitter impatience and indifferent skepticism - and neither impatience nor indifference are favorable atmospheres for encouraging reasoned thought.

Every day, I get a little smarter.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

I think a well-rounded education keeps us from being bored and boring!

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.