One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are, and will be what they will be.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Men of moral and intellectual distinction could scarcely agree to teach in schools where an alien attitude was forced upon them.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Life must be studied not from the pluses alone, but from the minuses too.[Жизнь изучается не по одним только плюсам, но и минусам.]
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.