Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Freedom can occur only through education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.

I think literacy is everything.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

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

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.

I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

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

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Education is very important, and I understand that.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.