Quotes About Insight

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Experience is the best teacher.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.