Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.

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

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

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

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.

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.

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

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

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

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.