Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

I need physics more than friends.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Only the educated are free.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.