John Updike Quotes

Educate yourself as much as you can with life. Just go out there.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

You learn something new on every film.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

You get educated by traveling.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

We're only as big as our experiences.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

Every day is a learning day.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I think I have a lot of learning to do, but that's what the game is for.

That's what it's all about: learning and taking this journey. It's wonderful.

What keeps me going are my learnings, which I would rather call my 'experience,' and my urge to explore.

Every outing is a learning experience.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.