Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

I hardly went to school.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.