Quotes about Learning

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

I know how tough engineering school can really be, but it's worth it.

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.