Learn, compare, collect the facts.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fastest fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

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

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.