How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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.