Emile Durkheim Quotes

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

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

We have therefore decided that in the most pleasant city of Naples there should be teaching of the arts and of all disciplines, so that those who are starved for knowledge will find it in our own kingdom, and will not be forced, in their search for knowledge, to become pilgrims and to beg in foreign lands

I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

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

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

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.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

The more I learn, the more excited I get.

The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

It is good to live and learn.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

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.