Teachability Quotes

"Value your listening and reading time at roughly ten times your talking time. This will assure you that you are on a course of continuous learning and self-improvement."

— Gerald McGinnis
President and CEO of Respironics, Inc.

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

— John Wooden
Hall of Fame Basketball Coach

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

— Ray Kroc

"You can learn from anyone even your enemy."

— Ovid

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

— John F. Kennedy

"It is better to learn late than never."

— Publilius Syrus
First Century BC, Maxim 864

"The more one learns the more he understands his ignorance. I am simply an ignorant man, trying to lessen his ignorance."

— Louis L'Amour
To the Far Blue Mountains

"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."

— Louis L'Amour
The Daybreakers

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

"The most important thing about education is appetite."

— Winston Churchill

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

— Robert Frost

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

— Publilius Syrus
First Century BC, Maxim 571

"... 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."

— Louis L'Amour
The Walking Drum