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All men by nature desire knowledge.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.

Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Always educate yourself.

Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.