Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

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

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Paris ain’t much of a town.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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 have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.