Edith Hamilton Quotes

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

I like to learn about things.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

I like to read and understand.

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

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.