I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

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.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

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.

We are wiser than we know.

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

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

If 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!

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

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.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

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.

Information is not knowledge.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.