Books Quote by James Fenimore Cooper

“A person is a scholar as long as he seeks knowledge. Once he thinks he knows, only then he becomes an ignorant.”

— Anonymous

“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age…

— Plato

“Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university…

— Dale Carnegie

“Knowledge does not always grow with age. As Age does not always show Knowledge. But the Experiences we have is what gives us Knowledge.”

— Melissa Ruiz

“We studied men like him at school – protected gentlemen, rich gentlemen, white gentlemen, who picked up pens and wrote the world for the…

— Jessie Burton

“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

“On the first day of the second term, Yaw watched the new students amble in. They were always well-behaved children, these boys, having been…

— Yaa Gyasi

“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

“You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“However, for the man who studies to gain insight , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years…

— James Herriot