When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Common Core is a big win for education.

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

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

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Not all those who wander are lost.

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

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

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

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I retain what’s interesting to me, but I don’t have a lot of strategic depth.