Thomas Arnold Quotes

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'

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

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

All intellectual superiority is the fruit of active effort.

You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God.

Seek wisdom. Wisdom waits to be gathered. She cannot be bartered or sold. She is a fight for the diligent. And only the diligent will find her. The lazy man - the stupid man - never even looks. Though wisdom is available to many, she is found by few. Seek wisdom. Find her, and you will find success and contentment.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

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

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.