Antisthenes Quotes

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Responsibility educates.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

I am forever learning and changing.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

I just want to do shows because you get to see, over all the seasons, the person grow, and you get to grow with the character. That transformation, for me, is what I love about my job. I get to learn about myself and challenge myself and grow with the character. For me, it's a whole process of learning and growing.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

I'm not going to be the same as I was when I've made so many bad mistakes.

Sometimes you have to be very bad before you can be very good.

That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.