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

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

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

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Information is not knowledge.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

We are what we believe we are.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.