You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Syllables govern the world.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.