Umar Quotes

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Education is more valuable than money. Money can be taken away from you. Education cannot be.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.

To be able to rub shoulders with kids who have spent their entire lives studying the classics... that's something I need to improve my overview.

Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what's leads to a more fulfilling life.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.

I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

What you are will make you what you will become.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

We should not be less than what we are.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

Character is perfectly educated will.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.