There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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.

Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

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

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.