Educational Sayings

I am a man who has experienced much, and learned little.

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

'There is no impossibility,' said the Professor, 'for him who wills.'

I have a theory that it is impossible to be a good writer and a good person.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I am a great admirer of the past, and I believe it is a great teacher.

I have been a victim of a kind of intellectual lynching.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

A poet must be a professor of the five senses.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

I'm always learning.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

The more you live, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you realize, the less you know.

I didn't have no education, but I had life. And I had the streets.

I'm not perfect. I make mistakes. But I always try to learn from them.