Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

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

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

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.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I like school and I like learning.

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

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

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

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

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.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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.

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 was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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 beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I’m not really book-smart.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

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

I don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.