I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
First, learn stand, then learn fly. Nature rule, Daniel-san, not mine.
No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.
We will not learn theory well unless we have been practicing it.
I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success.
The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.
I am still learning.
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
The events which formed a turning-point in my life were, first, my acquaintance with Bates, and second, my reading Malthus.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
There is no royal road to geometry.
Give him threepence, since he must make gain out of what he learns.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy: 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.
In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes.
It almost doesn't matter what you know. It's what you can do with whatever you know or can learn that counts.
Radical open-mindedness and radical transparency are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change.
Stories are like flight simulators for the brain.
The way we field outcomes determines our ability to learn from them and to improve our decision-making.
Breadth of training predicts breadth of transfer. That is, the more contexts in which something is learned, the more the learner creates abstract models.
The purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.
