Wit is educated insolence.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

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

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Because motivation pervades all action, it is important that we have a positive motivation. Whatever we are involved in, whether it’s politics, education, medicine, law, engineering, science, business or industry, the nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

No matter how educated or wealthy you are, if you don’t have peace of mind, you won’t be happy. 

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America

When compared to six years’ schooling at a German authoritarian gymnasium, it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority.

The students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to enshrine the hopes and ideals of the nation.

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.

On education: The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society; it is that education which in the main is founded upon the desire for successful activity and acknowledgment.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. 

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Information is not knowledge.