Steve Martin Quotes

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

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

It is in college that one gathers confidence as the mind is open to ideologies.

I graduated with a B.A. in philosophy, and it was by far the best major I could have taken in college.

I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university - four years of not being in the public eye - and I met all my best friends doing it, so I am definitely glad it happened.

I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

I loved the college experience of studying.

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.

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

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

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.