101 quotes
“It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.”
"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
— Chinua Achebe
"There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."
— Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought"
— Napoleon Hill
"Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching."
— Mao Zedong
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
— Khalil Gibran
"Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering."
— Erasmus
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss
"A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed."
— Charles Spurgeon
"Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place."
— Albert Camus
"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views."
— Abraham Lincoln
"I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot."
— Miley Cyrus
"The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak."
— Zhuangzi
"It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons."
— William Thackeray
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
— Vincent van Gogh
"We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do."
— Thomas S. Monson
"For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do."
— Philip Pullman
"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
— Peter F. Drucker
"If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake."
— Patrick Rothfuss
"I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers."
— Oprah
"Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished."
— Neil Gaiman