Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
BERTOLT BRECHTIntelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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