Quotes About Openness

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.

You won't learn if you think you already know everything.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

Certainty ends inquiry.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.

Learning is the first quality of acceptance and vice versa

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Be curious, not judgmental.