The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. FeynmanSome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander PopeI wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.
Conor McGregorThe successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale CarnegieWisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles SpurgeonThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
AristotleI’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.
David BowieA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore RooseveltTo accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
EpictetusOne of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
Brian EnoI had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
Karl LagerfeldMen do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous HuxleyI liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.
Maya AngelouI just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret ThatcherYou’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.
Joel OsteenYou aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonQuite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan QuayleThe big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
Warren BuffettInformation, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.
Narendra ModiNothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
Marcus Tullius CiceroStupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
Karl LagerfeldEach time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
Joyce MeyerEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin FranklinThe method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
Robert Baden-PowellMy mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.
Clint EastwoodI’ve actually not read any books on time management.
Elon MuskLectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Bill GatesUpon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin DisraeliTruly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise PascalThose who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
PlatoI am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWhat’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob DylanIn my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen HawkingThe Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
Robert Baden-PowellWhich government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCollege isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Helen KellerMy background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
Elon MuskI’m not really book-smart.
EminemExperience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous HuxleyTime and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry FordIf you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank ZappaIt’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?
David ByrneHumility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
Joyce MeyerIf a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
PlatoHow hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Albert CamusEverybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
EminemThis above all, to refuse to be a victim.
Margaret AtwoodI was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
Kanye WestImagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
EpictetusFreedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.
Jocko WillinkI went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.
Bill GatesThe proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous HuxleyDon’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham LincolnLet’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. MenckenI’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsAs your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
Taylor SwiftMastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.
Robert GreeneI would fain grow old learning many things.
PlatoFailure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerBegin with the end in mind.
Stephen Covey