Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

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.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

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

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

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

Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.