After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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

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.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

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.

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.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

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.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

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.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

There 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.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.