Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

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.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.