Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

You can learn from everybody.

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.

I never met a person from whom I did not learn something.

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.

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

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.

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

The more people know, the more people share. The more people improve the quality of their lives, the more they'll talk to other people about it, and then they'll help each other.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.