You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

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?‘

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

The less you know, the more you believe.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

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.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Never find fault with the absent.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

I always make my dreams into goals.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.