Education is important because it prepares you for life.

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.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

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 do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

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

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

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

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

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

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

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.