Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.