Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Few people realize that luck is created.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

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.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Never complain. Never explain.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.