Sonny Bill Williams Quotes

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

I definitely feel like I'm a smarter player than when I first entered the League.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.