What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Motivational Quotes, Students Quotes

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom...

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom...

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

History, a distillation of rumour.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an...

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an...

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if...

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if...

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.