They know enough who know how to learn.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

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

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.