Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

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.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

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

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

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

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Youth is wasted on the young.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Experience is the teacher of all things.