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

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

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

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

No driver is perfect.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I give the children education.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.