Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

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.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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