The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

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

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I’m not really book-smart.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

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.

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.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Libraries raised me.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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

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

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

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

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

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

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

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.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.