If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

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

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Change in all things is sweet.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I’m concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

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

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.