We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

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

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

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

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

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.

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

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.