Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.
I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.
Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.
And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.
My parents are very proud that I was a 'Blue Peter' presenter and of me going to Cambridge to do economics.
Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.
Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.
Young women who want an education will not be stopped
