The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

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

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

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

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

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

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

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.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

I think America has always been polarized.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Common Core is a big win for education.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

We’re news junkies in my house.