Greg Graffin Quotes

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

The most important thing for me is to continue to learn, step by step, regardless of club or country.

I have told many times I am always a student willing to learn new things.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Everyone must learn from the past.

We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.

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

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

We teach what we need to learn.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.