Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

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.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Live truth instead of professing it.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

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

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

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.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough – I box and do karate – but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.