Accounts Quote by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education…

— Samuel Johnson

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour…

— Henry David Thoreau

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling.…

— Napoleon Hill

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

— Plato

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as…

— William Hazlitt

“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”

— Jack London

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very…

— Adam Smith

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never…

— Aldous Huxley

“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he may know…

— David O. McKay

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting…

— James Joseph Sylvester

A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has…

— Hunter S. Thompson