Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

My mother insisted that her children read.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there’s a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

I teach children to be winners.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.