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

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

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.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

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

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

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

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

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

Men want to make women happy.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

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

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

There is no education like adversity.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.