Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I don’t race cars.

I became a beach bum.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

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

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

For me, education was power.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

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

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

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

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

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

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.