“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”

— John Buchan, Memory Hold-The-Door, 1940

About John Buchan

1875 – 1940

Scottish novelist and statesman, author of "The Thirty-Nine Steps".

“There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.”

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living.”

“My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.”

“I think that the reason to live is to learn.”

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”

“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool.”

“Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life.”