Teachability Quotes

“Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.”
― Richard rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.”
― Plato

“Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.”
― Douglas Copeland

“Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now.”
― Douglas Copeland

“Never think that you know everything and you do not have anything to learn from your people.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“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.”
― Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

“Fools despise understanding and sound knowledge, they are neither teachable nor coachable but proud to be ignorant and hate discretion. On the other hand the simple are both teachable and coachable, unfortunately they throw away caution, sound judgement and discernment as they believe in every word, story, or false promise imposed on them. That makes them gullible, easily manipulated, brainwashed, deceived or taken advantage of. Unlike the wise, though teachable and coachable but have their guards on to only learn and do what is right.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“It is impossible to learn what we think we already know.”
― Epictetus, The Essential Writings

“Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.”
― William Zinsser

“They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.”
― Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

“In nature, golden illustrations lie upon the surface.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“Teachability that emanates from expressed humility is a must-have trait in a world where skills are depreciating in value as soon as they're learned.”
― Lisa-Marie Hatcher, Win With Decency: How to Use Your Better Angels for Better Business