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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I like school and I like learning.

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

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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

Nature has always had more force than education.

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.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

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.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

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.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.