I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

The more you know the less you need to say.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

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

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

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.

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

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

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.‘

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

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