It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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.

War is what happens when language fails.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Smiles are the language of love.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I like school and I like learning.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.