Quotes about Learning

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

20% of America's millionaires never set foot in college, and 16 of the 492 Americans listed as billionaires in 2014 never got their college diplomas; 2 never even finished high school! So although education and a commitment to lifelong learning are essential to success, a formal degree isn't a requirement.

Jim Rohn said, "If you read one book every month about your industry, in ten years you'll have read 120 books. That will put you in the top one percent of your field.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.