Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Education is the best provision for old age.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

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.

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

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

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

I hardly went to school.