"Anyone can be self-educated if they find the……" — Francis Spufford

"Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately."

— Francis Spufford

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20 Quotes by Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we…
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have…
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that…
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity…
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever…
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the…
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence,…
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to…
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind…
You never came out the way you came in.

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More Anyone Quotes

This quote is filed under Anyone Quotes, one of 10,413 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about… — Neil Armstrong
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that… — Neil Armstrong
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize… — Andrea Arnold
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one… — Diane Ackerman
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. — Teresa of Avila
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else… — Richard Bach
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. — Burt Bacharach

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