Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise PascalNecessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
Leonardo da VinciFailure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim RohnAll travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel JohnsonI give the children education.
Jackie ChanExperience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel KantAll writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.
Kurt VonnegutLike music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy CarterMarriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Abraham MaslowI like school and I like learning.
Greta ThunbergEverything I learned I learned from the movies.
Audrey HepburnThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThere can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.
Sunil ChhetriTouch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray BradburyExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar WildeThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSuffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur SchopenhauerRead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconA man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will RogersNo traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
John MuirSponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.
Steven WrightDeath is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius CiceroCustom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise PascalIn 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.
Kevin GatesNo driver is perfect.
Lando NorrisThe career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao TzuIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan PoeYou’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
Paulo CoelhoWhat we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel JohnsonFlying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas AdamsWe all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.
Anthony HopkinsMan is by nature a political animal.
AristotleThere 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.
Will RogersI would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt DisneyRead about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.
Jim MattisDespite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
Edmund HillaryI am two with nature.
Woody AllenThe progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
VoltaireThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John MuirBy trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
Mark TwainI am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.
Herbert HooverI find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho MarxMy sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert FrostEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SocratesEverybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John MuirI never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark TwainAs I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew CarnegieNever lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David ThoreauTo whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
Kurt VonnegutExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl SaganI think I’ve got wiser.
Vivienne WestwoodNothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis BaconA child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James BaldwinThanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.
Jim MattisI learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.
Angelina JolieThe nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Galileo GalileiIn the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret AtwoodI did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau