If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

I love trying new things.

I think I’ve got wiser.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.