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.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

I don’t follow politics much.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

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

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

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

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

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.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

There are some loony people in this world!

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.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.