If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Life is too short to learn German.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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

All that I know about my life it seems I have learned in books.

All men by nature desire to know.