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.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

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

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I give the children education.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

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.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Common Core is a big win for education.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

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.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

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.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.