Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

I have got two daughters and both are girls.

Travel teaches tolerance.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

I teach that all men are mad.

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn John Cotton Dana

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Your fortune stateth: You teach best what you most need to learn.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion.

Me: This is my report. I think you'll be pleasently surprised. Teacher: This isn't done, and it has nothing to do with Saddam Hussain. Me: That's enough out of you!

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

He who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Remember how much fun you had shooting spitwads at the teacher in seventh grade? Imagine applying that kind of attitude to actually fucking with Mitsubishi!

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you.

We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.