“I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me.”— Nicolas Chamfort, Reflections, #324Share
“The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.”— Nicolas ChamfortShare
“Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.”— Nicolas ChamfortShare
“Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.”— Nicolas ChamfortShare
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”— Albert EinsteinShare
“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”— ConfuciusShare
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”— Miguel de CervantesShare
“Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.”— Edward Bulwer-LyttonShare
“A Nobel Peace Prize would help me to begin this campaign for girls' education.”— Malala YousafzaiShare
“Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.”— Bertrand RussellShare
