It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

To footnote properly takes time.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams.