Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

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

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Knowledge is power.

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.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

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

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

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

My 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.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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.