Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

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

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

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

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

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

I made my fair share of mistakes.

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.

Children are all foreigners.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

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

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

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.