“To read is to renew thy mind.”
“We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.”
Source: The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
“By you, I am forever undone.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Wahrscheinlich werde ich jede Nacht von dir träumen", sagte er. "Und wenn ich aufwache, weiß ich, dass der beste Teil des Tages schon vorbei ist."
"Das hast du irgendwo gelesen."
"Hab ich nicht.”
Source: Arkadien brennt
“You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own.”
Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
“I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.”
Source: The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan
“The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" of Europe in pursuit of a peripatetic scholarship.”
Source: Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
“Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way