Edward Livingston Quotes

Reading equals hope times change.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.

The very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men is knowledge.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

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.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

When you know more, you can do more.

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Only the educated are free.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind.

When you've got education, you've got knowledge and power and confidence to go out in the world.

I hope I work effectively, but I never feel I have exhausted what I should be doing... I believe we have a responsibility to be a good influence on others.

I'm a teacher and a philosopher by nature... In the end, I'm trying to teach people to live a better life. And if I can do that on top of entertain, then I leave the world a better place.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!