Alexander Pope Quotes

Pleasure must be found in study.

I may be older but I never stopped studying.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Always educate yourself.

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

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

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.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.

I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.

Freedmen have the natural thirst for knowledge, aspire to power and influence… coupled with learning, and are excited by the special study of books.

Great is the study that brings us into action.

I feel like I'm sort of afraid to study too much because I feel like I work as I go, but I want to study the classics and also the technical aspects of things. I'm always looking to understand more.

I love learning.

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