Top 97 Teacher Wisdom Quotes
#1. You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
Nhat Hanh
#2. If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.
Michael A. Singer
#4. In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.
Thiruvalluvar
#5. In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.
Idries Shah
#7. As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.
Mark Epstein
#8. A mentor is a trusted teacher that develops lives of the vulnerable ones.
Euginia Herlihy
#9. Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,
means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,
one as much as another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. The wise teacher appears, not for the structure of the student; but for the freedom of the people.
Nikki Rowe
#12. I sat with the broken;
I whispered their names,
I let them feel for the first time; serendipity, would change the vision they see for a day
Nikki Rowe
#13. The fool sees his own foolishness reflected in the wisdom of the teacher.'" This
Robert Kroese
#14. It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
Laozi
#15. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.
Henry Miller
#16. Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#18. A teacher of knowledge and power gives you experiences in other dimensions. They show you that the universe is much bigger and more fascinating than you had ever imagined. They give you direct and immediate experiences in other realities.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.
Brian Weiss
#21. Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.
Bob Brookmeyer
#22. If experience is life's best teacher then why do we have to learn by example?
Terry Blakeman
#23. Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Tom Brown Jr.
#24. So, how's school? How's everything going?"
"Can Gio hear us?"
... "Yes"
"Oh, well then, it's going magnificently. I'm so fortunate to have a knowledgeable and patient teacher like my uncle, who is imparting his centuries of wisdom into my eager young mind.
Elizabeth Hunter
#25. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#26. The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
(Analects 2.11)
Confucius
#27. Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even to a greater extent than his father; for his father gave him life in this world, while his teacher instructs him in wisdom, secures for him life in the world to come.
Maimonides
#28. The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.
Randy Travis
#29. Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.
Andy Andrews
#30. A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.
Steve Almond
#31. SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN
GURGANI:
The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching.
Idries Shah
#33. Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.
Robert Henri
#34. The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.
Julie Andrews
#36. Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.
Frederick Lenz
#37. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#38. Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
T.F. Hodge
#40. One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.
John Dewey
#41. The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
Khalil Gibran
#42. Dance bravely into your own heart, and you will find the love of all.
Tehya Sky
#43. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.
Idries Shah
#44. Many teachers will tell you to believe; then they put out your eyes of reason and instruct you to follow only their logic. But I want you to keep your eyes of reason open; in addition, I will open in you another eye, the eye of wisdom.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
#45. As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.
Debasish Mridha
#46. In a world of sleepwalkers an awakened mind is a teacher and a catalyst for new awakenings, whether they want to be or not.
Bryant McGill
#47. Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator.
Debasish Mridha
#48. They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.
Lee Smith
#49. Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself
Idries Shah
#50. You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#51. A good teacher will show you the ropes in the world of power. They will give you the wisdom that is necessary to be able to use power. You just don't give a kid a new Ferrari. You teach him how to drive it.
Frederick Lenz
#52. John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
Mark Sheppard
#53. We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.
Simon Boylan
#54. The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.
Frederick Lenz
#55. Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.
Muni Natarajan
#56. We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.
Molly Friedenfeld
#57. Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.
Frederick Lenz
#58. Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
Mitch Albom
#59. A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.
James Allen
#61. What slave work do you want me to do for you?" asked Diogenes when he had been bought.
"Be a teacher to my children," answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.
Tomichan Matheikal
#62. Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Thank you for all your guidance and wisdom, for setting the bar so much higher than I thought I could reach, and for giving me plenty of room to run with my own ideas. You've been the best teacher I've ever had.
Lisa Genova
#64. All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is
the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.
Starhawk
#65. Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.
Idries Shah
#66. The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.
Larry Ellison
#67. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Mollie Marti
#68. Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
Bliss Perry
#69. Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.
Wayne W. Dyer
#70. Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#71. Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
H. P. Blavatsky
#73. Wisdom is a teacher,
God is its professor.
The wise are His students,
life is His rod,
and eternal life is our reward.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. Not the formal schooling but the journey through the life is the best teacher.
Debasish Mridha
#75. We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.
Frederick Lenz
#76. Action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
Idries Shah
#77. Pain is a teacher, as I have told you before. Most people fear it. We do not. We would never stop a child from touching a burning piece of wood. We would warn, but never prevent. Wisdom comes through listening to those with more experience. Only fools blunder through unnecessary pain.
Jeff Wheeler
#78. [I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ...
William Jones
#79. Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.
Lynsay Sands
#80. We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
Ani DiFranco
#81. don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#82. It is ok to be a teacher but it is great to be an educator.
Debasish Mridha
#83. With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
Ajahn Chah
#84. Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.
Debasish Mridha
#85. A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.
Anthony Liccione
#86. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#88. If a teacher teaches you what to think, but not how to think, it is not a true education.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught by a teacher who is none other than self-experience only.
Anuj
#90. A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.
Leonard Cohen
#91. The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.
Mark Stephens
#92. A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
Christopher Pike
#94. There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#95. If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
Zhuangzi
#96. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
Carl Sagan
#97. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
Idries Shah
