“A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.”
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Wise Quotes — page 3 of 916
“The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.”
“If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.”
“The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.”
“The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.”
“To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.”
“Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
“A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.”
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.”
“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”
“A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.”
“We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.”