Philip Yancey Quotes

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that…. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough.

If I believe that I have done it all, there's nothing more for me to learn and explore.

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Everything is a learning experience.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

Every day is a learning day.

If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

We learn nothing by being right.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.