The only source of knowledge is experience.

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.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

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

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

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

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

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

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Time discovers truth.

Silence is the mother of truth.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

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

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

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

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

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.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.