Quotes About Wisdom

Yesterday should be the teacher of today.

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

Rosalyn Bruyere has been one of the most important teachers of hands-on healing in the world for many years. I will always be grateful for what I have learned from her.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.