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.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

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

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

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?

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

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

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.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

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.

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.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

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

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

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

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.

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

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

No driver is perfect.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

I’m not really book-smart.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

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

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.