“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.”

— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, 1977

About Richard Bach

Born 1936

American author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "Illusions".

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”

“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.”

“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”