Walter Benjamin Quotes

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

I have authentic wisdom to share with others.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

A word to the wise is sufficient

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Advice is always a confession.

Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

I've always used the technique of the cuento. I am an oral storyteller, but now I do it on the printed page. I think if we were very wise we would use that same tradition in video cassettes, in movies, and on radio.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.