Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

What we learn from history is that no one learns from history.

If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

I would teach the children music, physics and philosophy, but the most important is music, for in the patterns of the arts are the keys to all learning.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'

Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He then learns, that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. He learns that he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve!

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I never met a man so unknowledgeable, I could not learn something from him.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.