Nausea (1938)
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
“You remember that book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten?”
… Well that's very much true. I find a lot in common in the way I manage things and the way she manages three-year olds. We humans are the same when we are three years old and when we are 50!
Comparing his work as an international diplomat to that of his wife, Aida Elkachef, a kindergarten teacher, with a mention of the book by Robert Fulghum.
Breaking the Cycle (2003)
"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 54
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Source: Revolutionary Petunias
On life in hiding from Nazi authorities, p. 48
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
Context: One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot. I learned, because there was no interruption. I had access to myself, to my thinking. I wouldn't say that I particularly matured. The thinking was physics thinking. I was just short of twenty-two then.
I was in hiding for two years and two months, something like that. In all that time I went out very, very little, just once in a great while, after dark. Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
“All I want is to continue to study….I want to learn about everything, about people, about life.”
"Miss Universe Captivates New York" (1976)
Remark to Judson Welliver, as quoted in Francis Russell (1968) The Shadow of Blooming Grove.
1920s
