You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

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.

Time discovers truth.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

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

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Science is nothing but perception.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.