A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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.

There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

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.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

He who hath many friends hath none.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

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

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.

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