Joseph Addison Quotes

I'd like to continue my education. The physical stuff's great and I think it's great as an actor because you get to live a lot of little lives, but learning more about the world, learning another language, continuing with my Spanish that's important.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

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

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless 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.

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.