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Quotes About Wisdom

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
~ Aristotle
Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room
~ Taylor Mali
Injuries are our best teachers.
~ Scott Jurek
My biggest struggles have been my biggest teachers.
~ Kathryn Budig
Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.
~ Thomas J. Watson
Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.
~ Neil Gaiman
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
~ Thomas Paine
The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.
~ Laozi
For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
~ Lactantius
Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
~ Tom Robbins
What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.
~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
~ Confucius
As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.
~ Hyemeyohsts Storm
Let your Teacher be Love itself.
~ Rumi
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
~ Hermann Hesse
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
~ William James
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
~ Frederick Lenz
You are the mirror of divine beauty.
~ Rumi
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
~ Confucius
If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.
~ Confucius
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
~ Shah Rukh Khan