Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

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.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

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.

Knowledge is power.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

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

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

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.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

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

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

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

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Every artist was first an amateur.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.