Elie Wiesel Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

  Elie Wiesel

  Reading, Heart, Mind

  "Elie Wiesel on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

• The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Wall, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, College, America

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Optimistic, People, Holocaust

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Men, Elderly

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile.

  Elie Wiesel

  Reading, Adventure, Two

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Writing, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Morning, Writing, Up Early

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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