Norton Juster Quotes

I think you never stop learning.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

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

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

I like to read and understand.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I like to learn about things.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you possibly can and just fill your vocabulary and your brain with as much as humanly possible.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.