Ray Bradbury Quotes

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

All intellectual superiority is the fruit of active effort.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.