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.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

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.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

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

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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

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

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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!

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

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.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Knowledge is power.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

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

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

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