I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

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

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I give the children education.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

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

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.