We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.

Learn a lot. Laugh a lot. Love a lot. Live a lot.

Someone has said, Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance. I agree.

Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.

are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.