Jakob Bohme Quotes

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

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

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Consult with the ignorant as with the wise.

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

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.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

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

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

We can learn from everybody.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

In order to have a large number of values in common, all members of the group must have an equitable opportunity to receive and to take from others. Members must be able to accept each other’s ideas and must be able to compromise. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences … educate some into masters, educate others into slaves.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

I speak from experience, and I speak from the heart, and I speak only what I know and what I understand; and on what I don't know and what I don't understand, I'm a good listener.