The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I’m not really book-smart.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

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.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

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

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

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

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.