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

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

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

I give the children education.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

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

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

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

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

The cautious seldom err.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

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

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.