Quotes About Wisdom

It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.

I had long believed adversity was the greatest teacher, but I learnt that nothing teaches you more about life than death.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.

This mysterious path is described in the holy books, but it cannot be found simply by the study of sacred texts. It is found by the grace and guidance of an accomplished teacher.

There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

A good student learns from his teacher. A great student learns to teach himself.

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

The Holy Spirit is our great Teacher.

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm.

From the older ox the younger learns to plough.

In the past perhaps I would have declined, but I now recalled the Poet's dictum—"To stay is to be nowhere"—and I was happy to accept.

once you have lifted your foot, do not be in a hurry to put it down again: who can tell what menacing nest of vipers you might step on.

Many a wise man lacks for sense, Many a fool has a heart of gold, Happiness often ends in tears, But what's inside can never be told.

Cuando crezcas te darás cuenta de que casi todo lo que se oye por la noche puede interpretarse de diversas formas. Y de hecho, no sólo por la noche y no sólo lo que se oye: también lo que se ve, e incluso lo que se ve a plena luz del día, puede casi siempre entenderse de muchas formas.

You cannot write without looking behind you; like Lot's wife. And in doing so you turn yourself and them into blocks of salt.