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

Public education has not produced an educated public.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Those who learn fastest will achieve more than those who learn best.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.