Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

The highest priority you can have is education.

No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Reading maketh a full man.

Home is really where education does begin.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

A scholar knows no boredom.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

A progeny of learning.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.