Terry Pratchett Quotes

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.

Education is an admirable thing.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

I've always been a student, so I want to learn.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.