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Remaining Open to Continuous Learning

Being proud of admitting we don't know; resisting complacency. Learn from experiences!

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Certainty ends inquiry.
Jacob Brownowski The Ascent of Man
To learn is to change.
George B. Leonard
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure.
Jean Kerr, American Author and Playwright
In a humble state, you learn better. I can't find anything else very exciting about humility, but at least there's that.
John Dooner, Chairman and CEO of Interpublic
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
Every person you meet - and everything you do in life – is an opportunity to learn something.
Tom Clancy, Author
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Goethe
Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.
Peter McWilliams, Author
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
Phyllis Bottome
He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
C.C. Colton
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
Allyson Jones
An expert is a fellow who is afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
Harry S Truman
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Jean Toomer
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
The education of a man is never complete until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
Lao Tsu
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar--that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire--can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey, President of Harvard University
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
Chris Evert
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