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

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.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Knowledge is true opinion.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.