You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Tell the children the truth.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

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

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

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

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

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I’m not really book-smart.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

There is no education like adversity.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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