Edward T. Hall Quotes

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Conversion brings a drive to learn.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I just want to keep learning.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.