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Quotes About Wisdom

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
~ Janusz Korczak
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
~ John Bradshaw
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
~ Miriam Defensor Santiago
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
~ J. C. Ryle
Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.
~ Cheryl Richardson
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
~ T. D. Jakes
A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.
~ Richard Rohr
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
~ Bill Bowerman
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
~ William Wordsworth
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
~ Don Herold
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
~ Mohnish Pabrai
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
~ Bruce Lee
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
~ Pat Conroy
If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.
~ Lee Strobel
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
~ Confucius
All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
~ George Whitman
True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.
~ Robert Grudin
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
~ Phillip Moffitt
Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.
~ Swami Vivekananda
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.
~ Rajneesh
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.
~ Bruce Lee
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.