Education Quote by Anne Tyler Download Open image ““But his study was so dim and close, and it gave off the salty inky smell of mental fidgeting.”” — Anne Tyler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Psychology
“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when the edge… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“He snorted softly. His talent had destroyed everything he had ever valued. With a shake of his head, he moved his thoughts away from… — Mitchell Hogan Copy Share Image
“He knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The Professor shook his head. ‘On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil.” — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
“I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He was not interested in detached knowledge, science for science's sake: there was no use learning anything if it was of no use. Relevance… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“You wake in the morning, you’re feeling fine, but all at once you think, “Something’s not right. Something’s off somewhere; what is it?” And… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image