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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

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.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

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.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

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

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The doer alone learneth.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I’m not really book-smart.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

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.‘

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.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

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

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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

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

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

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.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

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

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.