Ravi Zacharias Quotes

I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

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

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

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

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.