Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

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.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I’m not really book-smart.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

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

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.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.