On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

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

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Time is money.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

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

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

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

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Short cuts make long delays.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.