You teach best what you most need 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

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.

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