Thomas Chatterton Williams Quotes

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.

I don't come from an intellectual family.

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

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples 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.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Having an education is invaluable.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.