Quotes about Learning

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children learn to investigate topics without having dates in their heads, or the facts.

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

I used to think you all were missionaries bringing the gospel to your neighborhood, but now I see that it is in your neighborhood that you have learned the gospel, and that you are actually missionaries to the church.