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

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

All things are only transitory.

Africa is on the rise.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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

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.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.