Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

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.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

James Remar is a student of life.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.