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

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Information is not knowledge.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

I give the children education.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

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

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

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.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

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

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

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.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

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.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.