Troy Carter Quotes

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

They know enough who know how to learn.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

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

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

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

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.