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

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

There is no education like adversity.

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.

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.

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 biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

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

Public education has not produced an educated public.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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

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.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

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

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

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.