Bob Dylan

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.

That man is best educated who knows the greatest number of things that are so, and who can do the greatest number of things to help and heal the world.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake — but for the future of our nation’s sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness — for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy — for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government – for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

What I’m learning is that there is so much to unlearn.

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.

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

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

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

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

My last year in high school, I worked at a bindery, side by side with grown-ups who had been there their entire lives. Knowing that I, as a 16-year-old, was getting the same income and doing the same work… it gave me respect for those workers. But it also gave me an understanding that more is needed for folks to be able to cobble together a decent life on minimum wage.