Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

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

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

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

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

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

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

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

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

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

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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.

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.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.