Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

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

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

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

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

I read poetry to save time.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

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

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

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

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

There is no education like adversity.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

It’s very difficult to read a book on your computer.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

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

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.