Learning and wisdom quotes

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Success is something you attract by the person you become.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

Every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner.

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.

Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball, the further I am rolled the more I gain.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

Education is one of the blessings of life, and one of its necessities.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore... whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking.

Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.

A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content.

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

The unexamined life is not worth living for men.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.

It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.

If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization.

As long as you're green you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Pain + Reflection = Progress

Truth, or more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality, is the essential foundation for any good outcome.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

The learn-it-all does better than the know-it-all.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

The more that you read, The more things you will know. The more that you learn, The more places you'll go.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

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

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

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

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

Young people need models, not critics.

You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.

[Computers] are useless. They can only give you answers.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering, because you can't take it all in at once.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

If you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time.