Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
Being proud of admitting we don't know; resisting complacency. Learn from experiences!
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
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| It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden, Basketball Coach
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| I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett, Actress, comedienne
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| Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worth all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
Bertrand Russell
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| When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Hugh White, U.S. politician
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| New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
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| You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.
Brandi Chastain, soccer star
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| Failure isn't a crime. Failure to learn from failure is the crime.
Walter Wriston, former chairman of Citicorp
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| What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle
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| I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught
Winston Churchill
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| It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from examples.
Fred Hoyle
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| The years teach what the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
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| To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge.
Tze-sze
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| Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson Jr., Computer executive
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| To teach is to learn.
Japanese Proverb
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| Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
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| The brighter you are, the more you have to learn .
Don Herold
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| I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
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| Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
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| Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off once in a while, or the light won't come in
Alan Alda
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| If you want to live creatively, you must be willing to suffer the humiliations of the novice.
Kinji Akagawa , sculptor.
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| Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer
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| The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
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| Teach the tongue to say 'I do not know'.
Maimonides
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View Quotes:
- Persisting
- Managing Impulsivity
- Listening with Understanding and Empathy
- Thinking Flexibly
- Thinking About Thinking (Metacognition)
- Striving for Accuracy
- Questioning and Posing Problems
- Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
- Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
- Gathering Data Through All Senses
- Creating, Imagining, Innovating
- Responding with Wonderment and Awe
- Finding Humor
- Taking Responsible Risks
- Thinking Interdependently
- Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
- About the Habits of Mind
- Modelling Habits of Mind
