Samuel Louis Gilmore quotes

“Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.”
-- Samuel Louis Gilmore

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“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

“The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.”

“Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.”

“When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.”

“The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.”

“Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.”

“All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.”

“John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!”

“Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.”

“Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, I, 35, 1925.