Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
Being proud of admitting we don't know; resisting complacency. Learn from experiences!
| Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
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| A wise man will hear, and will increase learning.
Proverbs 1:5
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| He is no wise man that cannot play the fool on occasion.
Thomas Fuller
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| The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
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| He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
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| Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis Bacon
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| Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
Henry Doherty, American engineer and investor
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| The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.
Malcolm Forbes, American publisher
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| Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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| I am Still Learning
Michelangelo
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| I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.
Tony Bennett Double Grammy Winner
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| Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Barbara Tuchman, historian and writer
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| The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss, author
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| Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut, novelist and satirist
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| People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve
Jeffrey Gitomer, author and speaker
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| The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
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| It's never too late to give up your prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
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| It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
Hannah More, British philanthropist
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| See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.
Guy Finley, author and speaker
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| You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Montesquieu
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| Knowledge creates enthusiasm.
Thomas Watson Sr. I. B. M.
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| Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and satirist
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| Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
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| Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
Rupert Murdoch
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| All of the top achievers I know are lifelong learners… looking for new skills, insights and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing…not moving toward excellence.
Denis Waitley
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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
