Ethel Barrymore Quotes

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, 'Would you rather be interested or interesting?' And to me, it was always like, 'Interested!' How is that even a question? I feel very lucky that I'm just really, really interested in a lot of things.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

James Remar is a student of life.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I'm interested in everything.

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

I love learning.

Once people are made aware of things that they were previously ignorant of, I think people are a lot more willing to really try.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.