Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

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

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I like school and I like learning.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

What we live by we die by.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

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.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.