Charles Spurgeon Quotes

You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God.

Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

If there's a field you're interested in, do some research. If you can, go to school and study it to really understand it from its core.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself on the world and the film that I'm working on.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

Read, read read. Read everything.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

So few grow, because so few study.

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

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