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

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

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

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

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.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

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

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.