Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Nature is not human hearted.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

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.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.