I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn’t have an eventful childhood.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The doer alone learneth.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

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

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

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

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I need physics more than friends.

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

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.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‚Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.‘

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.