First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

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.

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

Common Core is a big win for education.

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

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.

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

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

The doer alone learneth.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.