Best Teachability Quotes

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

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.

He who stops being better stops being good.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

It is better to learn late than never.

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.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

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

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.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

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.

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.