Quotes About Wisdom

You haven't made a fire till it has burned. You haven't made a dollar till it's earned. And no teaching has transpired If the child has not acquired. You haven't taught a child till he has learned.

If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains.

Ada satu prinsip yang harus kamu ingat. Ilmu itu harta yang paling berharga. Kalau ada kesempatan untuk menambah ilmu, jangan pernah kamu sia-siakan.

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.

When one's young, everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother in law to hear at your trial

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway

The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.

We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy.

Experience can be a very bad teacher, indeed, or not teacher at all. It is like the silly phrase, "Practice makes perfect." In most cases, practice merely confirms us in our errors, and the longer we do something the wrong way - that is, without enlightenment and instruction- the more fixed we become in our folly.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

As Bernard Shaw said, "He who can, does: he who cannot, teaches." But, as Sydney J. Harris put it, "Let's revise Shaw's foolish saying to 'He who can, does; he who understands, teaches.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.