A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

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.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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

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

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

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

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

I 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.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

We 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.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

I teach children to be winners.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

I 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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

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 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.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.