Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I think I’ve got wiser.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

The wisest have the most authority.

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.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

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

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.