Quotes on Wisdom, Learning and Teaching

Quotes of Simple Wisdoms Ghandi James Allen ................................. He was my greatest teacher. He taught me patience. - The Dalai Lama on Mao Tse Tung ................................. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon ................................. Its what you learn after you think you know it all that matters. -Unknown ................................. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. - St. Francis De Sales ................................. The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot ................................. Maturity is the willingness to take on an unpleasant task and have the determination to stick with it until it's done. ................................. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson ................................. Wisdom puts off today's tasks and thinks instead of tomorrow's memories. - Simple Wisdoms ................................. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan ................................. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield ................................. Forgiveness for ourselves is the journey from guilt over what we have done or not done to the celebration of what we have become. - Dr. Joan Borysenko ................................. Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else. - Thomas Fuller ................................. It does make a difference what you call things. --Kate Douglas Wiggin Most of us think of dandelions as weeds. We buy special tools and poisons when they crop up and complain about them as surely as we welcome the spring that brings them. Yet is there anything more lovely than a sea of yellow dandelions by the side of the road in June? Or as remarkable in transformation as the filaments of the mature dandelion blowing on the wind? Sometimes we let someone else define for us what are weeds and what are flowers. We don't have to. Much of the beauty of the world is that we ourselves decide what is beautiful according to our own feelings. How lucky we are that, when we choose to, we can open our eyes and see! Can I see the beauty in those around me right now? ................................. He who saves is worth more than he who earns. - Yiddish proverb ................................. Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning? - David Halberstam ................................. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin ................................. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. - Heraclitus ................................. .................................