Educational Sayings

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

I never went to art school. I just painted.

I have never been truly happy, for happiness is a bourgeois invention.

I am not a learned musician, but a man of the theatre.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

My choice of colors is not based on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the very nature of the experience.

I learned how to draw by drawing on the subway.

I never learned to read music. I just played by ear.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who acts for the public good is rarely rewarded by the public.

The newspaper is the greatest school in the world.

I got to have some help, I got to have some help. I'm going to take this man to school. I'm going to teach him how to fight.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I believe in the power of education to change lives.

I learned that there is no shortcut to success.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any record containing it.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The amount of good which a woman can do to a man is not by 'keeping house' for him, but by giving him a share in her own intellectual life.