Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn’t anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.
All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It’s not on the curriculum.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.
There’s room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill, if you want to be like the folks on the hill.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.[Beginnende Bildung fängt immer mit dem Tadel an, vollendete aber sieht in jedem das Positive.]
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
