If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Only the educated are free.

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

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

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

The cautious seldom err.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

There 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.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.