Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.