Alfred Jules Ayer Quotes

We learn nothing by being right.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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

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

I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.

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

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.

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

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

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

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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

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

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

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

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

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.

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

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

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