Teachability Quotes

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

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

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

It is better to learn late than never.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

He who stops being better stops being good.

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

The most important thing about education is appetite.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.