It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.