The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

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

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.