(1414 quotes found)
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
Chanakya
“The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I me”
Plato
“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
Oscar Wilde
“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”
Bo Bennett
“Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth”
African Proverb