You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

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.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

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.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

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

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

There is no sin except stupidity.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I would always want printed 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.

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.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.