It can be tough for anyone to go from being a manager or senior leader to being a student. Symbolically, becoming a student represents the loss of power, income, and status.

Do not let yourself become lazy or content. Do not stop trying to improve yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to fail and don’t be afraid of new experiences; because the moment you stop growing and learning is the moment you start dying.

If you feel you have learned it all, then you have made a grave mistake.

Every person has a limited amount of time on this Earth, but it can be easy to forget that fact when one is busy pursuing lofty academic truths. You can spend your whole life chasing knowledge and turn around and find that you have missed out on many important moments in your loved ones’ lives.

All people are valuable, and there is so much that can only be learned by meeting many people.

Many of life’s greatest truths are terribly unpleasant.

By spreading knowledge you can live forever. You can be the lighthouse that guides people to safety; a light in the darkest of times.

There are different conceptions of what is a good life, and not all of them are correct. Conceptions of the good life, which include much learning, are probably more true than other conceptions.