We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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

Man is a universe in little.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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

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

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

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

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

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

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.

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.

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.