Time as he grows old teaches all things.

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

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

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing. To allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.

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

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

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

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

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.