Norman Cousins Quotes

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth…

I'm always learning new things.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

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.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

The value of a good education has never left me.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

A man without education is an incomplete being.