William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

You learn from everything.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

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.

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.

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

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

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

All experience is good experience.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Experience is a great teacher.

Everything is a learning experience.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

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

Every person learns with time and experience.