You cannot open a book without learning something.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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

When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

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

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

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

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

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!

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

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

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.