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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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.

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.

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

There is no education like adversity.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.