There is no education like adversity.

Common Core is a big win for education.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

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.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I will not be triumphed over.

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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

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

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

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.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

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.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.