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

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

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

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

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.

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.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.