Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I think we need more idiot control.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

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

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The self is hateful.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.