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.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

The proper study of mankind is books.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

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.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion – a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long – that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

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.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I like school and I like learning.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

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

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.