You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else!

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

We have more machinery of government that is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.