Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

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

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

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

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

My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I've yet to learn but that is out there available to me.

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

I have learnt many things, but there's more to learn. Every day is a new start.

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

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

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

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

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

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

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.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

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

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much? By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!