Charles Lamb Quotes

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Home is really where education does begin.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

Education forms the common mind.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Every head should be cultivated.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.