Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I have wasted my hours.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Nature has always had more force than education.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Dream and you shall become.

What we think, we become.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.