Bell Hooks Quotes

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

Always educate yourself.

Take advantage of educating yourself.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

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.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

I think once you stop learning, you're going to stop growing.

We get inspired and we learn new things.

Education is an admirable thing.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

I've always been a student, so I want to learn.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

A lot of learning canbe a little thing.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.