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

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

No driver is perfect.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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.

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.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I haven’t read Horowitz. I didn’t used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don’t read him today.

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.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

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

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

I cannot live without books.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.