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

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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.‘

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

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

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Many admire, few know.

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.

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.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Study men, not historians.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Only the educated are free.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

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

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.