Teachable Quotes

• Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning.

  Todd Blackledge

  Success, Humility, Humble

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• Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

  J. I. Packer

  Humble, Divine Wisdom, Mind

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• Experience teaches only the teachable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Teaching, Experience

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

  Mother Teresa

  Long, Laughing, Tone

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• Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Ignorance, Character, Names

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity”, p.60, Thomas Nelson

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• The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Education, Mind, Unwilling

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• Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

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• The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

  Criss Jami

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Latter

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.34, Criss Jami

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• Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

  Vernon Howard

  Secret, Whole

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• To be humble is to be teachable.

  Richard G. Scott

  Humble, Be Humble

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• It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

  Vernon Howard

  Mistake, Creativity, Dark

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

  Roger Ebert

  Wisdom, Believe, Two

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• The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Despair, Helping

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• If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Heart, Happy Life

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• 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.

  J. C. Ryle

  Giving Up, Humble, Two

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.455, Editora Dracaena

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• The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

  Swami Brahmananda

  Learning, Mind, Suggestions

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• The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.

  Richard Rohr

  School, Rocks, Self

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!

  John Berridge

  Children, Humility, Simple

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• Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

  Os Guinness

  Purpose, Asceticism, Emotion

  Os Guinness (1976). “In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it”, IVP Books

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• Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.

  Watchman Nee

  Able, Taught, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.131, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.

  Richard L. Evans

  Children, Communication, Opportunity

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• Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Reform, Christ

  "30 Good Minutes", www.30goodminutes.org. October 31, 1993.

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• Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.

  Dave Ramsey

  Mom, Mean, Two

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• Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Osmosis, Design

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• You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Moments, Teach

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