Ram Nath Kovind Quotes

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Universities are the temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

That knowledge is power – that education is the citadel of liberty – that national glory and prosperity consist in the cultivation of the sciences, in the elevation of the liberal arts, in the extension of the powers of productive industry, are now considered as admitted truths and acknowledged axioms

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

A progeny of learning.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Experience is a great teacher.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.