Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world…

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

— Virginia Woolf

I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I…

— Will Ferguson

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“He had already learned to read, but now he learned the pleasure of stories which is like no other pleasure—the experience of slipping sideways…

— M.R. Carey

I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

— Jeff VanderMeer

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that…

— Mark Twain

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

— Henry Fielding

For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the…

— Helen Vendler

“Despite all that I had taught, I had learned nothing about the world.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“By the time you are old enough to pick up a book like this one, you have learned it: the world is not your…

— Susan Neiman

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere…

— Kami Garcia

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

— Rutger Hauer

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

— Allen Ginsberg