Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The worst men often give the best advice.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.