See also Fords.
TEACHING
About the most hopeful element in any human being's character I should reckon to be teachableness.
Wherever you meet a man who knows—and knows he knows—and wards off any proof of reasoning of yours with the impenetrable shield of a superior smile or the dull hostility of a determined eye, you feel that between you and him there can be no real dealings.
The wisest minds I find are the most teachable. The wider one's experience, the more thorough his study, the braver his heart, and the stronger his intelligence, the more willing he is to hear what you or any man may have to offer.
Stubbornness is usually the instinctive self-defense of conscious weakness. When one can do nothing else to show his strength he imitates the mule—the most despised of animals.
Spinoza's maxim was that the two great banes of humanity are self-conceit and the laziness coming from self-conceit.—Dr. Frank Crane.