The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Many admire, few know.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

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.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Facts are stubborn things.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

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

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

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

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

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

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Knowledge is power.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.