If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.