Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

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

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

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.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

We cannot learn men from books.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

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 doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

No driver is perfect.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

A witty saying proves nothing.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Study men, not historians.