Timothy Leary Quotes

The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

Sihanouk developed an education system very well, and that was in some ways its undoing, because there was education where they produced a lot of graduates, but there was no service industry to absorb these graduates. So you had a lot of graduates pulling rickshaws to carry passengers. That development led to a huge unrest among youth.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

The world is full of educated derelicts.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one