One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

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

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

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

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

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

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

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

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.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I’m a big fan of Aamir Khan… Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

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.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

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

Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

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

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I’m not really book-smart.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

They know enough who know how to learn.