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.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

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.

I hardly went to school.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

I need physics more than friends.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‚r‘, except at the beginning of a word.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.