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

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

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.

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.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Facts are stubborn things.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

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.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

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.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

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.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.