Montesquieu Quotes

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

I tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

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

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.