The only thing I know is that I know nothing
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.
A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.
High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, how to be free from it, that's the point. Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.