Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

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

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

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Time discovers truth.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Experience teaches only the teachable.