I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

We cannot learn men from books.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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

Information is not knowledge.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.