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.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

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.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Children always turn to the light.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I give the children education.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

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

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.