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

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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

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

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.