William Cowper Quotes

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

James Remar is a student of life.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

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

Travel teaches as much as books.

The best university is the university of life.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free.

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

If you asked me what the most important thing in my life is, it's learning.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

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.

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

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.