I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas SowellI cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
Henry David ThoreauIt has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganMistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl JungWe are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. FeynmanI cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry FordThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesSoap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark TwainThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin DisraeliYoung men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.
Russell M. NelsonIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo GalileiSome like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul AusterNaturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‚feminist.‘ In the beginning, I used to say, ‚Well, of course I’m a feminist.‘ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.
Alice MunroWe knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.
Stephen CurryExperience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
Steven WrightEvery writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
Haruki MurakamiYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussIt’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
Mark ZuckerbergEverything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Hosea BallouWhat one fool can understand, another can.
Richard P. FeynmanIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily DickinsonThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
Stephen KingThe goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. KennedyFor centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. MenckenI don’t read books much.
LeBron JamesI don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?
Mr. TWhen I write, I try to become different characters.
Billie EilishKnowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
PlatoThere should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
George LucasI got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.
Alice MunroI admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.
Noam ChomskyThere is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest HemingwayWhen you’re older you want to learn from other people.
Ray BradburyI’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘
Maya AngelouI have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Emily DickinsonBooks like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel JohnsonI never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don’t ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I’m writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.
Alice MunroThe method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
Robert Baden-PowellI’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.
Kendrick LamarAnd all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alexander PopeBut I think we’re also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They’ve seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There’s so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.
Keanu ReevesI think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice WalkerA University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin DisraeliThe reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim RohnWe’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.
Carl SaganBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonNo one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
Fidel CastroTo be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
PlatoKnowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PlatoBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.
B. C. ForbesThis report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston ChurchillI was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
Richard P. FeynmanThe 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.
Will RogersLibraries raised me.
Ray BradburyNo man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. ThompsonScientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen HawkingCommonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma GandhiIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein