James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

You always need to be curious and study.

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

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

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

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements.

It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that…. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough.

Every minute of every day, we should be challenging ourselves to grow intellectually and to stay curious about the world.

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

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 older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

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