Quotes about "Education & Learning"

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field. ”

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. ”

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics. ”

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. ”

I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death. ”

Petty thievery is a more profitable job than pool hustling, which it resembles, requires far less talent and training, and is equally devoid of promise. ”

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. ”

My education was an education by movies. ”

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. ”

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience. ”