We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

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.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

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

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

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

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

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 give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

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

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

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

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Knowledge is power.