Edward Cocker Quotes

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Education is more valuable than money. Money can be taken away from you. Education cannot be.

Every day, I get a little smarter.

I just think knowledge makes the world go 'round, man. So, if that makes me a geek, then cool.

I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

Few things are as essential as education.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.