Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

Public education has not produced an educated public.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

No garden is without its weeds.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most impressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be saturated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.