Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

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.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

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.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

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.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

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.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

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.‘

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

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

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Knowledge is power.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

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.