Information is not knowledge.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Nature has always had more force than education.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

I 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.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

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.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Reality is a sliding door.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

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

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

No 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.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.