Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.

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

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.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

Studying in countries like China isn’t only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It’s not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It’s also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It’s about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world.

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.