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

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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

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

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.