Quotes About Teachability

THE ONE WHO KNEW said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." Happy, that is, are those people who know that their spirituality is small, that their creeds are imperfect, that their instruction concerning God and man is incomplete. Happy are those who know that they do not know all of truth. For only those who admit their spiritual poverty are willing to learn.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

I've always taken direction pretty well.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

The Gospel of Matthew declares, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." An early Chinese Daoist text, the Daodejing or Laozi, compares the perfected sage to an infant or small child, perfectly open and receptive to the world.

when we think we have things already figured out, we're not teachable. Genuine insight can't dawn on a mind that's not open to receive it.

Are you teachable or not? Listen up, you've got to be teachable for life. Because, until and unless you are teachable, you cannot learn something new. Yes! if you are not willing to learn no one can teach you. Besides that, if you are not determined to learn no one can persuade you to learn. Now that is to say, teachability (ability and willingness to learn) is the key to learning. So come on, be teachable for life. As well, be apt (quick to learn) at all times. ~Emeasoba George

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." MARK 10 : 15

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

L'única saviesa que podem esperar d'obtenir és la saviesa de la humilitat: la humilitat que no té fi. La única sabiduría que podemos esperar obtener es la sabiduría de la humildad: la humildad que no tiene fin.

As C. S. Lewis said, Christ "wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head. He wants us to be simple, single-minded, affectionate, and teachable, as good children are; but he also wants every bit of intelligence we have to be alert at its job, and in first-class fighting trim.

Teachability is often confused with subservience. A person is wrongly thought to be teachable if he is passive and pliable. On the contrary, teachability is an extremely active virtue. No one is really teachable who does not freely exercise his power of independent judgment.

So what's the opposite of teachability?" "Proud . . . smug . . . know-it-all . . . shallow . . . stubborn . . . arrogant . . . that enough?" "Helps to know who you don't want to consider. So then, what are words that define teachability? "Well, what I just said: curious, inquisitive, hungry to learn, humble, disciplined . . . that enough?

No one is unreachable as long as he is teachable.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

One of the great killers in Bible study is the statement, "I already know that.

Teachability is an attitude of wanting to learn from every experience and every person.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

The greatest minds are marked by nothing more distinctly than an inconceivable humility, and acceptance of work or instruction in any form and from any quarter. They will learn from everybody, and do anything that anybody asks of them so long as it involves only toil, or what other men might think degradation.

In God's kingdom, calling trumps credentials every time! God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called. And the litmus test isn't experience or expertise. It's availability and teachability. If you are willing to go when God gives you a green light, He will take you to inaccessible places to do impossible things.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.