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.‘

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Study men, not historians.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The less you know, the more you believe.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

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

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.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

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.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

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

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

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

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

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

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

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.