Love is a better teacher than duty.
—Albert Einstein
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
—Alfred Korzybski
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith.
—Vivienne de Watteville
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
—Rudyard Kipling
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
—Thomas A. Edison
The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things. You have to work hard on it. Ask yourself what are the arguments on the other side. It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the arguments for the other side better than your opponents. This is a great mental discipline.
—Charlie Munger
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.
—Charlie Munger
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
—Carl Sagan in Cosmos
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
—Louisa May Alcott
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
—Henny Youngman
Experience is the teacher of all things.
—Julius Caesar
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
—Publilius Syrus
School was a worry to her. She was not glib or quick in a world where glibness and quickness were easily confused with ability to learn.
—Tillie Olsen
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
—Ivan Illich
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
—Pearl Bailey