As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?
Jim MattisUpon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin DisraeliEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund BurkeRead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel KantWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel KantTeaching 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.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamPerhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.
Jim MattisI believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
Russell M. NelsonYou’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
Vivienne WestwoodMy books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainI never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark TwainBooks are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas AdamsA book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray BradburyEvery man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous HuxleyIf we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert EinsteinThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettKnowledge is true opinion.
PlatoThere comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert EinsteinThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
Walt DisneyHe who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao TzuMy elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Benjamin FranklinWe should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThrough my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
Michelle ObamaI’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Carl SaganI just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.
Greta ThunbergThere is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily DickinsonBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David ThoreauI don’t believe in colleges and universities.
Ray BradburyScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HippocratesBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark TwainOpinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
PlatoJust as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Leonardo da VinciIt takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas SowellThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovThere is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.
Terry PratchettMore people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.
Vivienne WestwoodWho has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl JungI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SocratesI believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.
Ray BradburyI’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.
Kurt VonnegutIt always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.
Robert Baden-PowellNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore RooseveltIt is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James BaldwinEducation is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaI read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
Amy WinehouseThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand RussellI 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.
Michelle ObamaLectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Bill GatesBooks are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John RuskinWhere knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin DisraeliI was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
Richard P. FeynmanWe all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
Bill GatesThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert EinsteinA little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil GibranRead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconEngineering 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.
Herbert HooverYou can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt