Samuel Smiles Quotes

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

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

You learn from everything.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

All experience is good experience.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Everything is a learning experience.

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.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

Every person learns with time and experience.

The most important thing for my father was learning. Because nobody can take that away from you.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

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.

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

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.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

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

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.