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| For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. | Amy Lowell | 1874-1925, American Poet, Critic |
| The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. | Anita Brookner | 1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian |
| We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. | Barbara Sher | American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was'' |
| Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. | Bill Gothard | |
| A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. | Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967, American Poet |
| For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own. | Caroline Lejeune | 1897-1973, British Film Critic |
| Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. | Denis Waitley | 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert |
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| All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence. | Denis Waitley | 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert |
| That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way. | Doris Lessing | 1919-, British Novelist |
| Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated? | Earl Nightingale | 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker |
| The living language is like a cow-path: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay | Elwyn B(rooks) White (1899-1985, | American Author, Editor |
| There is no more beautiful life than that of a student. | F. Albrecht | |
| Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. | Francoise Sagan | 1935-, French Novelist, Playwright |
| Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. | Frank Moore Colby | 1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist |
| Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. | Giorgos Seferis | |
| How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
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| I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. | Henry L. Doherty | 1870-1939, American Utilities Executive/Engineer |
| Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | Holbrook Jackson | |
| Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | Holbrook Jackson | |
| What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. | Horatio Bottomley | American Politician |
| People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me. | J. August Strindberg | 1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet |
| I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. | J. R. Tolkien | 1892-1973, British Novelist, Scholar |
| There is no need 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 | 1895-1986, Indian Theosophist |
| He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. | John Aubrey | 1626-161997, British Antiquarian, Writer |
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| A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. | John Naisbitt | American Trend Analyst, Futurist, Author |
| It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. | Karl Kraus | 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist |
| Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. | Leo Buscaglia | American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author |
| Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and nonpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. | M. Scott Peck | American Psychiatrist, Author |
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| My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. | Malcolm X | 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist |
| Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. | Mortimer J. Adler | 1902-, American Educator, Philosopher |
| A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. | Norman Cousins | 1915-1990, American Editor, Humanitarian, Author |
| Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. | Robert Byrne | |
| Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
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