Learning
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Jung

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
-- Thomas Merton

Much learning does not teach understanding.
-- Heraclitus

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
-- Richard Feynman

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner
-- Unknown

Knowing
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
-- Bertrand Russell

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
-- Pierre Gallois

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
-- John le Carre

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-- Niels Bohr

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
-- Alexandre Dumas

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
-- Edward R. Murrow

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
-- George Orwell

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
-- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934

Living
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
-- Laurence J. Peter

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
-- Woody Allen

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
-- Frank Tibolt
-- George Burns

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- E. E. Cummings

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
-- Samuel Johnson

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-- W. H. Auden

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
-- Franklin P. Adams

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
-- Henry Stimson

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
-- Margaret Bonnano

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
-- Bertolt Brechto

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
-- Peter Ustinov