“When I want to read a good book, I write one.”

"Become who you are by learning who you are."

“I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.” 

“Learning comes through pain.” 

“Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.” 

“You have learned the lesson by experience.” 

“It is always in season for old men to learn.” 

“He who learns must suffer.” 

“Only through suffering do we learn” 

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.” 

“To learn is to be young, however old.” 

“Three keys to success: read, read, read.” 

“Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).” 

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.” 

“A fool is wise in his eyes.”

First you learn humility, then you experience glory.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

“Learning’s a gift, even when pain is your teacher.”

“Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.” 

“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.” 

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” 

“We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.” 

“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.” 

“Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”