Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I need physics more than friends.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

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

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.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

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.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Change alone is unchanging.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

No man was ever wise by chance.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.