Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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

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

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Information is not knowledge.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I think I’ve got wiser.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I know love is the answer.