Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

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

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

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

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

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.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

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

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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

No driver is perfect.

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.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

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

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

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

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.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

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

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.