G. H. Hardy Quotes

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.

Learning is an unwelcome guest to the Devil, and therefore he would fain starve it out …. If ever there be any Considerable Blow given to the Devil's Kingdom, it must be, by Youth Excellently Educated.

Elders are the books of the young.

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.