Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

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

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

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

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

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

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

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.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Only the educated are free.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

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

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.