Quotes About Wisdom

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.

I was a teacher once.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Experience is a good teacher.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

I learnt martial arts from a Japanese teacher.

I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.