We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

To live is to think.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

No driver is perfect.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

All men are equal before fish.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

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

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

For me, education was power.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

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.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Life is warfare.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.