# Quote — Louis L’Amour, Education of a Wandering Man

> How much of what we do is free will, and how much is programmed in our genes? Why is each people so narrow that it believes that it, and it alone, has all the answers?
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> In religion, is there but one road to salvation? Or are there many, all equally good, all going in the same general direction?
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> I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

- Author: [Louis L’Amour](https://www.leafyquotes.com/louis-lamour.md)
- Book: [Education of a Wandering Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/louis-lamour/education-of-a-wandering-man.md)
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## More from this book

> Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
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> He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.

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> My own education, which is the one I know most about, has been haphazard, a hit-and-miss affair that was and continues to be thoroughly delightful.
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> I came into the world with two priceless advantages: good health and a love of learning. When I left school at the age of fifteen I was halfway through the tenth grade. I left for two reasons, economic necessity being the first of them. More important was that school was interfering with my education.

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> 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.

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