Explore more quotes by James A. Baldwin

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

Emotion, State

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."

History, People

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."

Society, Affliction, Nothing

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

Heart, Purity

"No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it."

People, Culture, Possession

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."

Time, First

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

Poor, Poverty

"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

World,

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

Failure, End, Living

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

People,

Exlpore more Education quotes

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

Mark Twain, American Author

Education, Read

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Education, Tears, Writer

"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

Education, Science, Fantasy, First, Open

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Reading, Writing

"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

Education, Science, Fiction

"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Education, History, Time, Biography, Fiction

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Education, Business

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

Jack London, American Novelist

Education, Beauty, Purpose, Now, Reason

"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Day

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Education, Life, Existence, Harmony