Belief gets in the way of learning.

PRINCIPLE Ego clouds and disrupts everything: the planning process, the ability to take good advice, and the ability to accept constructive criticism. It can even stifle someone’s sense of self-preservation. Often, the most difficult ego to deal with is your own.

Ego is a powerful enemy when it comes to better understanding reality.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

In many cases, you'll find the only thing preventing you from learning is your ego.

No one enjoys feeling foolish, but attempting something new requires that you climb down from your perch and struggle as a beginner. You must ask questions that reveal your ignorance or attempt skills that make you look uncoordinated.

Learning demands the willingness to live in a brief state of discomfort. You must believe that looking like a fool for an hour will not ruin your reputation for life.

Out of too much learning become mad.

The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

It is Self 1’s mistrust of Self 2 which causes both the interference called “trying too hard” and that of too much self-instruction.

People imagine that letting themselves go would have disastrous results; trusting neither circumstances nor themselves, which together make up life, they are forever interfering and trying to make their own souls and the world conform with preconceived patterns. This interference is simply the attempt of the ego to dominate life.

It’s difficult to have fun or to achieve concentration when your ego is engaged in what it thinks is a life-and-death struggle.

I have found that many people use arrogance to try to hide their own ignorance.

The biggest obstacle to learning is assuming you already know.
Confidence is usually ignorance.