Knowledge is power.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

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

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

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

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

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.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Many admire, few know.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.