Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

The cautious seldom err.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

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

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

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.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Information is not knowledge.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Those whom the gods love grow young.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.