Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

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

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

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.

For me, education was power.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

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

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Science is nothing but perception.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

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

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

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