Experience is the teacher of all things.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

You can’t do something forever.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.