The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

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?

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.