Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Education is the best provision for old age.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I grow old learning something new every day.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

You have to learn and keep learning.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.