"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books." - Henry Ward Beecher

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself." - Confucius

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life." - Horace

"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever." - Chinese Proverb

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go." - Bach, Richard in 'The Bridge Across Forever'

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'

"The only way to learn is by changing your mind." - Card, Orson Scott

"By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." - Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c.4BC-65AD)

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau, Henry David in 'Walden', II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For