There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
When you know better you do better.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
