I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I think I’ve got wiser.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Rather be dead than cool.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I hardly went to school.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

All of my music is honest.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

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.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.