Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

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.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The less you know, the more you believe.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.