We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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

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

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

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

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.