Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

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

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

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

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

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.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

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

You can’t go backward in life.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

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.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.