There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

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.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

All great achievements require time.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

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

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

‚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.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

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

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

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.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Knowledge is power.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Water’s never clumsy.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.