Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

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.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young 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.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

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.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.