Hugh Skinner Quotes

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

Learn how to humble yourself, and be able to take advice and not feel like you know everything.

I don't have any problem with people correcting me and telling me how I can be better.

I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

I had people put my feet on the ground for me and say, 'No, you don't know everything, and you need to learn this and this and this,' and it took me time to realize that.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

I don't want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don't feel entitled or like I'm a superstar. I'm still growing, learning, and figuring things out.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.