The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

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

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

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

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I give the children education.

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

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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!

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

For me, education was power.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Teach a parrot the terms ‚supply and demand‘ and you’ve got an economist.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I came to America to teach my method – not to enter a research experiment.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.