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

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

I give the children education.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

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

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

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.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

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

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

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.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

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.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

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 a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.