Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

I’ve learned never to say never.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.