Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

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

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

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

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

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

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

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

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

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

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

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.