Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

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

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Action is character.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

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.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

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.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.