Quotes About Wisdom

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.