Seneca the Younger Quotes

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

The most important thing for my father was learning. Because nobody can take that away from you.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Experience makes us wise.

Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

It is never too late to be wise.

All of us from time to time look back and think we could've handled things differently or better.

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.