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

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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

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.

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.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

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

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

No man was ever wise by chance.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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?

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.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

The doer alone learneth.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.