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.

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

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing 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.

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.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Knowledge is power.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

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.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

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

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

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

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.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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.

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

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

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.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

There is no sin except stupidity.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

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

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.

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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