Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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

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

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

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

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Change in all things is sweet.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

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

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.