Quotes About Wisdom

That teacher teaches best who teaches least.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore.

Experience is a thorough teacher.

An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Failure should be our teacher...

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.