Ben Carson Quotes

Education is the key in so many ways.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

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

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Few things are as essential as education.

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

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

You have to learn and keep learning.

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

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Always educate yourself.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Take advantage of educating yourself.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.