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.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

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

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

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 think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

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

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

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

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

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

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

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

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

The proper study of mankind is books.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.