Leo Tolstoy

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don’t want to be a master. When I’m learning something, I’m in my element.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek’s.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.