Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

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 to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

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

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.