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

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

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

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Nature has always had more force than education.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.