In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

There is no education like adversity.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

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

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.