In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.