Teaching Quotes

5,075 quotes from 2,977 authors

Teaching shapes societies, yet the art of instruction is as personal as it is universal, and these voices capture that tension. Across centuries, 4,975 concise reflections from 2,905 distinct educators, philosophers, and storytellers reveal how knowledge passes, habits form, and minds awaken.

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My teachings are my life.

Joyce Meyer

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“.do you talk or walk?..”

Boris Kovalík

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My teaching is my legacy.

Anderson Silva

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Teach the art of living well.

Seneca the Younger

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Teaching a learned person ….

Vikrant Parsai

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I love teaching.

Anonymous

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Crawling still gets you there.

Cynthia Lewis

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Excellence is the new forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

William Arthur Ward

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If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Richard Stengel

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Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Khalil Gibran

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How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

David Suzuki

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The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Maria Montessori

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Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Jerome Bruner

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Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

Norman Cousins

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When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

Ryron Gracie

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There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Frank McCourt

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I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be

Franz Boas

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“You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.”

Richelle E. Goodrich

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“We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain.”

Bryant McGill

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

Simone Weil

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“Nowadays more than ever we need to see teaching as a personalized initiative with each pupil.”

Paul Harris

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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Erica Jong

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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

Jonathan Edwards

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Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot…

Christopher Hitchens

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I took my teaching responsibilities very seriously... I taught some great courses: Legal history to feminist theory, courses in American mass culture...…

Eva Moskowitz

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I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to…

Gary Kraftsow

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World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in…

Margaret Drabble

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“So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with…

Esmé Raji Codell

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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ,…

Will Durant

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Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

Helen Caldicott

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Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can…

William Zinsser

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One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask…

Charlotte Sophia Kasl

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“We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight,…

William F. Buckley Jr

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The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through…

Wendell Phillips