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It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way
Sep 11, 2025
If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!
When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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