Information is not knowledge.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

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

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I teach children to be winners.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Truth is what works.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.