Teaching Wisdom Quotes

#1. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

Criss Jami

#2. Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path - and that person could even be you.

Bryant McGill

#3. Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

Raheel Farooq

#4. Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Bliss Perry

#5. You never can truly help people by helping them, but you can help people by teaching them how to help themselves.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.

Mollie Marti

#8. No one can make you feel anything; you are completely responsible for how you feel.

Bryant McGill

#9. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#10. There is no such thing as a person without brilliance.

Bryant McGill

#11. Teaching is the best way to learn.

Debasish Mridha

#12. It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#13. When you carry a frown you will see more frowns; when you carry a smile you will see more smiles.

Bryant McGill

#14. You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.

Bryant McGill

#15. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Criss Jami

#16. Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.

Jennifer Skiff

#17. The more you use soul communication, the higher level of communication you receive. The more you offer service, the higher your frequency is and the higher level of teaching you receive. Release the wisdom.

Zhi Gang Sha

#18. We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.

Bryant McGill

#20. A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.

Bryant McGill

#21. All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

Ming-Dao Deng

#22. We do not actually know other nations; we only know our judgements.

Bryant McGill

#23. Anyen Rinpoche is a compassionate embodiment of wisdom. The skillful teachings in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath will be a source of peace and happiness for many in these troubled times, for which I am very grateful.

Garchen Rinpoche

#24. The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.

Ilchi Lee

#25. His tears and his spontaneous laughter are teachings within the teaching, reminding us of the incarnate dimension of wisdom.

Dalai Lama XIV

#26. I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

Criss Jami

#27. The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

Idries Shah

#28. It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching

John Ruskin

#29. 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

#30. At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment.

Bryant McGill

#31. Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#32. In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?

David Perkins

#33. Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something about it.

Bryant McGill

#34. As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.

Idries Shah

#35. The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#36. Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.

Bryant McGill

#37. Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

#38. Wisdom is a lamp;
all its teaching is light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#39. Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#40. May you receive the wisdom of your wounds and may you live your life even larger than your pain.

Bryant McGill

#41. Feed two birds with one crumb.

Mischa Temaul

#42. Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.

Bryant McGill

#43. To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#44. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.

Suzy Kassem

#45. Teachers see coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn.

Lance Conrad

#46. Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely. Zero is not a number.

Michael Ben Zehabe

#47. Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.
(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)

Kentetsu Takamori

#48. The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

Richard M. Weaver

#49. Those who have no mental vigilance,
Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate,
With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug,
Their learning will not settle in their memories.

Shantideva

#50. A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.

Anthony Liccione

#51. You cannot find what God has hidden;
you cannot hide what God has revealed.
The world deserves the light that's within you;
you deserve the light that you give to others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#52. Trials teach us patience and patience leads us to a place of hope

Paul Gitwaza

#53. No one ever pays to learn the most important things.

Neel Burton

#54. The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#55. Success is not only in the hand; it is in the heart.

Bryant McGill

#56. The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.

Donna Quesada

#57. If you are bored it is only because you are a boring person.

Bryant McGill

#58. People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.

Bryant McGill

#59. The master said:
I come not only to teach,
but to learn.
Learn first,
then teach;
that is wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#60. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

#61. You teach what you know... but impart who you are.

Jack Frost

#62. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Criss Jami

#63. Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

Stewart Stafford

#64. You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you.

Bryant McGill

#65. Learning is intelligence.
Knowing is understanding.
Practicing is wisdom.
Teaching is virtue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#66. You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.

Bryant McGill

#67. Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.

Bryant McGill

#68. Words of Wisdom Approach each day with positive thoughts. Believe in the goodness of others. Create a better world by being a friend. Decorate your life with beautiful things. Educate yourself through the teaching of others.

Scott Schwab

#69. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

Brian Tracy

#70. Understanding is important for studying,
knowledge is important for teaching,
and wisdom is important for living.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#71. The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

Idries Shah

#72. Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights. I look around: I see women who can offer strategic leadership, wisdom, counsel, and teaching.

Sarah Bessey

#73. One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

Hermann Hesse

#74. The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#75. Read when you can.
Teach when you ought.
Learn when you must.
Apply when you should.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#76. You've turned my wounds into wisdom. Teaching me to learn from my mistakes. Which ones were mine and which were out of my control.

Cheryl McIntyre

#77. In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Criss Jami

#78. Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

Bryant McGill

#79. The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#80. 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

#81. Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

Moliere

#82. It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

Nirmala Srivastava

#83. David Eckman is a man you can trust ... His teaching resonates with God's wisdom and compassion

Stu Weber

#84. Love has perfect eyes for beauty.

Bryant McGill

#85. Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.

Lev Shestov

#86. You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#87. True education kindles the student's mind but teaching fills the mind with information.

Debasish Mridha

#88. It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.

Bertrand Russell

#89. The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

Shannon L. Alder

#90. Rely on the teaching, not on the person;
Rely on the meaning, not on the words;
Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional;
Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind.

Gautama Buddha

#91. Stop blaming and start being!

Bryant McGill

#92. Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.

Irina Tweedie

#93. What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.

Bryant McGill

#94. Maybe you are a pig and don't even know it.

Bryant McGill

#95. Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.

Gary Rohrmayer

#96. There is no such thing as a non-subjective world to a subjective mind.

Bryant McGill

#97. SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN
GURGANI:
The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching.

Idries Shah

#98. PROVERBS 1:7-9 ENGAGE 1:7 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but foolsa despise wisdom and instruction. 8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

Anonymous

#99. The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Dejan Stojanovic

#100. Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods