Learning is superior to beauty; learning is better than hidden treasure; learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country; learning is strength inexhaustible.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Hitopadesa, (NA 500-NA), Indian collection; The Hitopadesa [Book of Good Counsel] is an ancient Sanskrit text dating to 500 AD based on stories from the Panchatantra.