Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Nature has always had more force than education.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

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.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

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.

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

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

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.

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

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Knowledge is power.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.