I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

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

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

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

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.