The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

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

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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.

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 feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Common Core is a big win for education.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

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

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

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’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

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.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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

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.

I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

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

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public 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.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

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.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.