Elie Wiesel Quotes

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

I think you never leave what you learn.

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Libraries raised me.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

I learned life from some good teachers.

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.

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

For me, education was power.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening was when I was 10, with a biography of Thomas Edison.

I have learnt a lot from Praveen Kumar.

My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' like, 'Read these books.' And it was like, man, I'm learning stuff that I just can't get anywhere else.

I learned a lot of stuff from Jae Crowder.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.