To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

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

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

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

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.