An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

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

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

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

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

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

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

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

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

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.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

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.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.