Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

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

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

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.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

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

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I’m not very articulate.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

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.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Education is the best provision for old age.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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