We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she'd say 'Ulysses' or something, I'd run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.