Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

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

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Facts are stubborn things.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.