If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

I’m a free spirit.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.