The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Music is the school and the hospital of the emotions.

The highest purpose of education is to unlearn what we once took for granted, to replace certainty with subtlety, prejudice with compassion, and destiny with possibility.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

No one ever pays to learn the most important things.

I can't believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking? That I would somehow live off inorganic chemistry?

Knowledge we find in articles, books, and courses, but wisdom we find only in our own hearts.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Teaching is very much like pruning: you need to know when and where and how to make the cuts, and, of course, why.