Fethullah Gulen Quotes

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

We get inspired and we learn new things.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

You learn from everything.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

Always educate yourself.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Take advantage of educating yourself.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.