I would fain grow old learning many things.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

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

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.