The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

You have to be someone.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

One must steer, not talk.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Don’t ever play yourself.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

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

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

If I can be a leader, I will.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

We are what we believe we are.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

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 degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Think and grow rich.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.