Ada Lovelace Quotes

I would live to study, not study to live.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Always educate yourself.

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Education is very important, and I understand that.

In acquiring knowledge there is no law that applies to the white boy that does not apply to the black boy. They all have to travel the same road to reach the same end….A man that desires to be wise must study, whether he be black or white.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

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

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

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

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

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.