“It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.”

“The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.”

“The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.”

“And what is it in us that is mellowed by civilization? All it does, I’d say, is to develop in man a capacity to feel a greater variety of sensations. And nothing, absolutely nothing else. And through this development, man will yet learn how to enjoy bloodshed. Why, it has already happened.... Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.”

“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.”

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

“The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”

“You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”