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

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

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

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

I’m not really book-smart.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

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

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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

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

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

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

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

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.