With every friend I’ve known, in every situation I’ve encountered, I have found something to learn.

It is here, I think, that the most important phase of education appears, in the capacity to learn from each thing you see, from each fact you acquire, from each experience you have, from each person you meet. And nothing you learn, however wide of the mark it may appear at the time, however trivial, is ever wasted. In all my life, nothing I have ever learned has failed to be useful to me at some time or other, often in the most unexpected way and in some quite unforeseen context.

Try to learn something about everything

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Learning life's lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself.

A mark of lifelong learners is recognizing that they can learn something from everyone they meet.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

I've learned what is most worth knowing through living each day as it is given to me. It cannot be 'taught' but it can be 'caught' from those who live their lives right along with us.

There is no experience from which you can't learn something.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage — and indeed perhaps more.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

I also discovered how much I could learn from listening to other people’s stories — even people who at first blush didn’t seem like the kind of people you could learn much of anything from