A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

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

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

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.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

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.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

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.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

All 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.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

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.