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.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

Many admire, few know.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

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.

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

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

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

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I need physics more than friends.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

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

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.