Words worth keeping

We learn from failure, not from success!

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.