Education Quote by Dale Carnegie

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to…

— Henry James

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London

“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He had, in fact, already begun to sink into that creeping dry rot of pedagogy which is the worst and ultimate pitfall of the…

— James Hilton

“...He found himself filled with joy, for now his existence had a meaning. He had a future, because he was part of a world…

— Orson Scott Card

“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The…

— Anonymous

“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.”

— Tim Sanders

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and that the…

— Lev Grossman