Learning never exhausts the mind.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

There is no education like adversity.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

I focus on my own job.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

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

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The only shame is to have none.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.