Quotes About Learning

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

Every time you fail, you learn more.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

Ask the young. They know everything.