Mortimer Adler Quotes

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

I just want to be educated.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

For me, education was power.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

James Remar is a student of life.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Always educate yourself.

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

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

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.