Bob Black Quotes

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass." I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

Learn all you can, don't be lazy. Nothing's worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad, but being stupid is what's really bad. And what's really really bad is being broke and stupid. Nothing's much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick, broke and stupid, that’s about as far as you can fall unless you're ugly. Surely that would be the ultimate; ugly, sick, broke and stupid.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

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

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit, what they're interested in. That's what really shines.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.

Every head should be cultivated.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

Education is what allows you to stand out

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.