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Quotes About Teaching

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
~ Andy Rooney
Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
~ Pythagoras
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.
~ Brian Weiss
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.
~ Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.
~ Saadi
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
~ Nyogen Senzaki
Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.
~ Dan Inosanto
Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
~ Gautama Buddha
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
~ Edwin Powell Hubble
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
~ Plato
In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.
~ Johannes Tauler
With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
~ Ajahn Chah
I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
~ Paul Ricoeur
It is better to preach five words of God's Word than five million words of man's wisdom.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
~ Brigham Young
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
~ Ivan Illich
The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.
~ Gautama Buddha
There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.
~ Gautama Buddha
There is no teaching to compare with example.
~ Robert Powell
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
~ Matthew Henry