There are many things that I don’t understand.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

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

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

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

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

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.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

There is no sin except stupidity.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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

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

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

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

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

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

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.

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

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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.

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