"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well."
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

"Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait."
The William Feather Magazine

"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."
Sidney Madwed

"If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you."
Natalie Goldberg

"Know thyself."
Thales (635 BC - 543 BC), (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
Chinese Proverb

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
Clifton Fadiman

"The fans know their football, you can't kid them."
Richard Gough

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Thomas Jefferson

"If you can measure what you speak of and express it by a number, you know something about your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory"
Kelvin

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge"
Abraham Joshua Herschel