There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Common sense is not so common.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.