Nature has always had more force than education.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

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.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I hardly went to school.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

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.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

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

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.