One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I have wondered about time all my life.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I like school and I like learning.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.