You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

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.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Fear is exciting for me.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

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

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

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.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

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.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.