“Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.”

“Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.”

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”

“Our job is obvious: We need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.”

“The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning, you go to school.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”

“Shall I tell you a secret of a true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that, I learn from him.”

“There is divine beauty in learning…. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.”

“If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.”

More than a decade of structured education gives us a blueprint to build a pretty good life. You've probably learned so many valuable things along the way to get where you're at today. But are you still learning?

JOHN UPDIKE

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