Simone Weil Quotes

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

So few grow, because so few study.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.