If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn’t understand. It’s a sense of empowerment.
Education is the great engine to personal development.
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.
Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had – everyday I’m learning something new.
There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.
There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.
A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn’t know before.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
The adventure of life is to learn...