Quotes About Wisdom

I love my failures because they taught me more than my teachers ever could...

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

History is philosophy teaching by example.

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Rise by learning. Knowledge is never bought on counters or sold in any store, knowledge is the transferred Light from teacher to student...

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach