Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

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.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Nothing endures but change.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

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

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

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

For me, education was power.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

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

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.