Only the educated are free.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

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

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

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.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

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

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Facts are stubborn things.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

There is no education like adversity.