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.

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

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

I like school and I like learning.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

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

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

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

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

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.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

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 go to school the youth to learn the future.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The human race is governed by its imagination.