I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

The profoundly ‚atomic‘ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

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

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

I need physics more than friends.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

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.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

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

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

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.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

No driver is perfect.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

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

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.