Experience is the teacher of all things.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.