We’ve got to dumb America up again.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

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

I teach children to be winners.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

For me, education was power.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

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

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

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.

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

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

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.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.