Quotes About Learning

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.