Edith Hamilton Quotes

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Education is equally important in one's life.

Work to learn. Don't work for money.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

The more we listen to ourselves and make positive changes based on what we discover, the more interesting life becomes.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

If you want to earn more - learn more.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.