Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

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.

Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

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

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

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

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

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

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

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.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

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.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

We have placed more emphasis on grades and school ranking than on genuine education.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

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 tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.