Alan Arkin Quotes

You know more than you think you do.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

I went to school for me - I didn't do it to make any sort of statement. So the very first year I was in school, I wasn't there under my own name. It was very incognito.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Everyone has the answers.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.