Quotes About Wisdom

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

'A Course in Miracles' has been one of my great teachers. I still study 'The Course' daily. It's like a gift that keeps on giving.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Teachers have a million stories, but nobody consults them.

I learned life from some good teachers.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

College education teaches you humility.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Iniesta teaches you something in every match.

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

One thing that I have learnt from many senior actors is that you can never take anything for granted. Whether one is working with the best director or a first-time director, every experience teaches you a lot.