Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I like school and I like learning.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

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

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

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.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I’m not really book-smart.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.