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

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

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

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

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

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

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

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.