Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

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

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

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.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

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.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

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.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Our intention creates our reality.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?