Laura Linney Quotes

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

You can learn a lot when you're around people that are completely different than yourself.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

All experience is good experience.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

We need the self-confidence to admit that at best we possess only a partial understanding of the truth, which can be enlarged by refining our views in light of new arguments, new circumstances and new insights. But this requires us to listen to others, to weigh their arguments with care, and maybe even to learn from them.

It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

I often go into the lions' den and engage with those I know oppose my views, because I want to understand what other people think.

When I spend a lot of time reading, discussing, or thinking about an area, I'll often really appreciate why a strong viewpoint is true and come to very firm conclusions. But if I am later exposed to a strong opposing view, I frequently find this countervailing view persuasive as well.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.