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

There is no education like adversity.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

In oratory the will must predominate.

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

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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

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

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.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

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.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I write all of my own speeches.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

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.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

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

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

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

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