education

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing"

"Life is a bliss only if you carefully understand it."

"Passion for books is pleasurable."

"The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge."

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained"

"Possibilities exist for you, to educate yourself, to the highest degree."

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."

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

"Dans les sociétés vernaculaires, l'éducation est homéotélique vis-à-vis de Gaïa"

"She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it."

"I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!"

"Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"

"On ne naît pas femme: on le devient."

"I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself."

"Let education kindle only those which are truly beneficialto the human species; let it favour those alone which are really necessary to the maintenance of society. The passions of man are dangerous, only because every thing conspires to give them an evil direction."

"I am different, not less."