Educational Sayings

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

By discovering the enemy's dispositions and remaining invisible ourselves, we can keep our forces concentrated, while the enemy's must be divided.

I have learned you cannot fulfil a great purpose like the building of Nevada and make ice-cream on the front porch every night too.

Most Chinese intellectuals should be sent to work in the fields.

Men are not more naturally brave than women, nor more naturally rational. They are only rendered so by education.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The day will come when history will speak.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

In justice as fairness the original position of equality corresponds to the state of nature in the traditional theory of the social contract.

The purpose of morality is to teach you not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

A country’s leader must have a pair of eyes—one looking at the present, the other at history.

The beginning of wisdom is the admission of one's own lack of knowledge. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The object of the study of the Torah is the removal of evil opinions and the acquisition of correct opinions.

They have no schools among them, but such as are public and free.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.