Robin Sharma Quotes

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Golf is my boyfriend right now.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

I'm a workaholic because I love to play, if that makes sense.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.