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.

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

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

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

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

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

I will fight in many weight divisions.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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

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 think I’ve got wiser.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

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.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.