If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

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.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

No driver is perfect.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.