The true university of these days is a collection of books.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

For me, education was power.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I hardly went to school.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

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.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

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.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

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

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

I grew up reading science fiction.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.