Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Tell the children the truth.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

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

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

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

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

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.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I hardly went to school.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Information is not knowledge.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

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

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

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

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.