Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.