If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

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

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

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

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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.

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.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

The wisest have the most authority.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

A lie cannot live.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

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