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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The art is long, life is short.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I’m not really book-smart.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

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.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

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.

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

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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?

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

There is nothing so stable as change.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.