The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” 

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

The quality of what we do depends on our motivation, which is why we have to learn how to cultivate a compassionate mind.

Learn and obey the rules very well so you will know how to break them properly.

Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn the liberating beauty of the intellect for your own personal joy and for the profit of the community to which your later work will belong.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.

I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; of false, that it lessens.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I spend a lot of time reading.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.