Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

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

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

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.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

We live in ugly times.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The doer alone learneth.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Only the educated are free.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.