Caroline Kennedy Quotes

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

I love to read and learn.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

It's important to have the opportunity to learn.

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

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.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

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

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

Few things are as essential as education.

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.