Quotes About Teaching

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.

The child must teach the man.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.

it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise. Now

Even the faults of a Guru must be told.