In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

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

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

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.

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

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.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

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

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

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

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

Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

No garden is without its weeds.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.