Others have often said it best and offered wisdom to help us gain perspective. (Amy Jarmon)
- I did not make sense of one single word spoken today. – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (in a letter to his father after his first day in law school)
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. – Confucius
- Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams
- "Learn" is an active verb. – Dennis Tonsing
- Borrowed brains have no value. – Yiddish proverb
- To know the law is not merely to understand the words, but as well their force and effect. – Justinian
- If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it. – John Searle
- Writing is thinking made visible. – Joe Kimble
- Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you sow. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. – Irish proverb
- It's not the time you put in, but what you put in the time. – Burg's Philosophy
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
- The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. – Samuel Johnson
- Repetition is the mother of learning. – Russian proverb
- If you study to remember, you will forget; but, if you study to understand, you will remember. – Unknown
- You can eat an elephant one bite at a time. – Chinese proverb
- To succeed, we must first believe that we can. – Michael Korda
- To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. – Dennis Waitley
- A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs
- The leading rule for a lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. – Abraham Lincoln
- What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. – Pericles
- Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
