The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

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

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I think I’ve got wiser.

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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

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

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Common Core is a big win for education.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical – one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

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.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

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.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

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.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.