I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

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.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

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.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I teach children to be winners.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

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.

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

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.