Quotes About Wisdom

Ashley Madekwe

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Everything I know and everything I got, I had to teach myself.

Some of the guys that can teach you the best never really made it just because they couldn't execute it themselves, but they can tell everybody else the reasons why everybody else made it and show you how. It's just hard to find those people.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

It just seems like it would be kinda cool to be able to actually teach kids important stuff.

I always feel that my films ought to teach me something about life.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.