Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.
Stephen HawkingThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas SowellLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
ConfuciusIt’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.
Jimmy BuffettThe training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.
Ray BradburyA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltEducate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
Alexander Graham BellYou will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.
Margaret AtwoodI was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.
Virginia WoolfIf you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!
Mr. TEducation levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
Joyce MeyerOne of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.
Nipsey HussleThe book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘
Paul AusterYou don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.
Ray BradburyFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteI know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.
Dave GrohlYou can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. SeussHomework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘
Angelina JolieI believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
Stephen CoveyA truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David ThoreauNo part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston ChurchillIgnorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PlatoWe’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
Dan QuayleYou can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack ObamaThere is no education like adversity.
Benjamin DisraeliI’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.
Adam SandlerIn truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho MarxThe Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
Robert Baden-PowellEducation forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Alexander PopeThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. SeussLove means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFirst 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.
Ray BradburyMany parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.
Christopher HitchensI’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.
Dolly PartonBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan PoeMy priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
Haruki MurakamiOn the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
Nelson MandelaIt was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark TwainScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HippocratesBeing ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. ChestertonGreat teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI don’t think about who the audience is for my books.
J. K. RowlingAll that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas CarlyleAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinTo make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John RuskinIt’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice WalkerMy husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
Queen Elizabeth III have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
Margaret AtwoodHistorically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Stephen CoveyThe bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
Bill GatesI specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.
Michelle ObamaGo to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.
Virat KohliIf you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
Kanye WestIn so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Maya AngelouEach age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonReal education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam