Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

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

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

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

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

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.

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.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

The proper study of mankind is books.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

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

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

For me, education was power.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

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

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.