Quotes about Wisdom
Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
— Nicky Gumbel
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker
— John Maxwell
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.
— St. Basil
A child miseducated is a child lost.
— John F. Kennedy
Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.
— Charles Hodge
Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.
— Albert Mohler
Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
— Publilius Syrus
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
— Samuel Johnson
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
— Confucius
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
— Martin Luther