One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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.

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.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don’t have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don’t pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

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

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

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

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.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

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

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

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

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

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.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

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

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

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

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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

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

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.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

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.