Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

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

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

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

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

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

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Science is magic that works.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.