Love of Learning Quotes

Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.

I didn't choose this career for money. When I started training, I did it because I liked it, and I never had money for anything in my life.

Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.

Can watching video lessons or using interactive software make people smart? No. But I would argue that it can do something even better: create a context in which people can give free rein to their curiosity and natural love of learning so that they realize they're already smart.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.