William Drummond Quotes

They know enough who know how to learn.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I surround myself by people smarter than me.

Eating a lot makes you fat. Reading a lot makes you wise.

It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

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.