William Hazlitt Quotes

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

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

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

My university work was not central to my education.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.