Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Begin with the end in mind.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

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

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Every wall is a door.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

I give the children education.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.