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

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

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.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

I need physics more than friends.

For me, education was power.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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.

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

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.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Facts are stubborn things.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.