Age Quote by David McCullough

There had been a huge period when I'd had no interest in learning, and nothing anybody attempted to teach me would stay in my…

— Gillian Anderson

I think it's crucial to recognize that we are so fortunate to have this human birth where we can practice what we want, pick…

— Tenzin Palmo

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

— Anand Giridharadas

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

— Frank Herbert

“The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the…

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

— Matisyahu

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

— Pat Conroy

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations…

— Samuel Johnson

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

— Anonymous

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

— Stanley Kubrick

“By reading a book, one can learn in a matter of days what it took the author an entire lifetime to learn”

— Pastor John Weaver

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except…

— Carl Sagan