I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

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 highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

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.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I hardly went to school.

For me, education was power.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I like to give back.

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.

I make good music for long journeys.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.