Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

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.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

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

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

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.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

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.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Mastery, 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.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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

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

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

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

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.