The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

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

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

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

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Many admire, few know.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

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

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

A jug fills drop by drop.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Libraries raised me.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.