Seneca the Younger Quotes

It is good to preach the same thing again, for that's the way to have it learned

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Learn by practice.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

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

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.