“Education consists in introducing someone to the adventure of thinking.”

“The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.”

“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.”

“The turbulent lives of their entrepreneurial ancestors led to grief and angst and adventures, and as Sirhan is fond of observing, an adventure is something horrible that happens to someone else.”

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”

“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”

“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”

“Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.”

“The Omarahs mostly consist of adventurers from different nations who entice one another to the court; and are generally persons of low descent, some having been originally slaves, and the majority being destitute of education. The Mogol raises them to dignities, or degrades them to obscurity; according to his own pleasure and caprice.”

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”