The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

I haven’t read Horowitz. I didn’t used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don’t read him today.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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.

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

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

I hardly went to school.

I teach children to be winners.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

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

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

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.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

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

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

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.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.