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

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Science is nothing but perception.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

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

No driver is perfect.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

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

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I think I’ve got wiser.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.