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

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

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

What one fool can understand, another can.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

There’s a level of service that we could provide when we’re just at Harvard that we can’t provide for all of the colleges, and there’s a level of service that we can provide when we’re a college network that we wouldn’t be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

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.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.