Wallace Stegner Quotes

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

It doesn't matter how much you already know. It's about showing humility and a willingness to learn; not just in movies, but in life in general.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.

If you already think you are correct and there's nothing else you can learn in life, then I think you are in trouble.

If I believe that I have done it all, there's nothing more for me to learn and explore.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.