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“No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.”
― Louis L'Amour

“It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.”
― Louis L'Amour

“No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.”
― Louis L'Amour

“A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.”
― Louis L'Amour

“The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Proving Trail

“We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.”
― Louis L'Amour

“There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen”
― Louis L'Amour

“Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. I read on buses, trains, and plains. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long?”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.”
― Louis L'Amour, Sackett

“The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum: A Novel

“There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.”
― Louis L'Amour, Ride the Dark Trail

“Laws are made to free people, not to bind them - if they are the proper laws. They tell each of us what he may do without transgressing on the equal liberty of any other man.”
― Louis L'Amour, Borden Chantry

“difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it’s a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one’s own actions.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“Victory is not won in miles but in inches.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Nobody is ever convinced by argument, anyway. They just think up new reasons for maintaining old positions and become more defensive.”
― Louis L'Amour, Comstock Lode

“For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett