Experience is the teacher of all things.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

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.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I teach children to be winners.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

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

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

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

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.