Book Learning Quotes

• You cannot open a book without learning something.

  Confucius

  Educational, Book, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

  Frederick Douglass

  Reading, Book, Forever

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Children, Book

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Healing

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Education

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.57, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Ruth Rendell

  Book, Reading, Life Is

  Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

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• The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

  Dusty Baker

  Baseball, Fun, Book

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• Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know.

  Sue Thoele

  Wisdom, Book, Voice

  Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.96, New Harbinger Publications

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• Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

  David Byrne

  Book, College, Guarantees

  2004 In Scotland on Sunday, 29 Feb.

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• Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.

  Janice Galloway

  Book, Iron, Bars

  1994 Foreign Parts, ch.7.

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• Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Texas, Worry

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• Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

  David Simon

  Book, Mean, League

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• A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Beautiful, Book, Together

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• People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Memories, Book

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• Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Memories, Children

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• For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Art, Book, Reading

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• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Book, Self, Oneness

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• The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

  Idries Shah

  Book, Mean, Ordinary

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.9, Octagon Press Ltd

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