Quotes About Wisdom

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, "Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.