Plutarch Quotes

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

The best university is the university of life.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I'm thankful for every lesson and learning experience.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

I learned life from some good teachers.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

The ancients called happy those who learned caution from the danger of others...as wax receives its impression from a seal, so the character of human life is shaped by example

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

I grew up watching Oprah on television. So, to say I didn't learn a lot from her just wouldn't be true.