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

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

There is no education like adversity.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The 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.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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.‘

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

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

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.