Much learning does not teach understanding.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The less you know, the more you believe.

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

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

Common sense is not so common.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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.

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.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

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

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