James Madison Quotes

I'm an educated individual.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

I'm not that cool; I'm just a bookworm.

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.

[John Larroquette] is one of the smartest men I've ever met. He's very cerebral and book-smart. He would say things and I'd have to go look them up, thinking, "That can't be true!" And they'd be true.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.