Emile Durkheim Quotes

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.

I've never stopped learning.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

I see myself as a student. Trying to learn everything.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

I think the things that I learned that stick with me are things you often repeat, even today, which is never stop learning.

You never finish learning.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.