Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Education is the development of power and ideal.

We all have to get better as human beings and that's something you can't really get away from.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Education made us what we are.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

Education is equally important in one's life.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can.

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.