The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

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.

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

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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

I’m not really book-smart.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

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.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Nature has always had more force than education.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

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