You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Information is not knowledge.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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.

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

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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

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.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

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

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

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.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.