Teaching Quotes · Page 62

“The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.”

— St. Ambrose

If you tell, very few will listen if they have to. But if you explain everybody will listen or want to know…

— Sanji-Paul Arvind

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

— B. F. Skinner

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

— Thomas Jefferson

Everything I teach you is just what you know, not everything that I know.

— Vikrant Parsai

“...readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...”

— Erica Jong

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

— Scott Spencer

If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.

— Tim Gunn

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching…

— Ronald Fisher

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount…

— Hal Borland

Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in…

— Liz Williams

“There is no one-size-fits-all in education. Period. What works in my classroom works as well as it does because I feel, with…

— Stacey Roshan

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to…

— Charles de Lint

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I do have to admit that teaching, composing, and editing is a bit easier than sitting at the organ or harpsichord for…

— Barbara Harbach

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and…

— Robert Burns

New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various…

— Meg Wolitzer

I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for…

— Murray Rothbard

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God…

— Timothy Keller

In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable…

— M. Russell Ballard

The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your…

— Oswald Chambers

Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy…

— John Ruskin

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

— Paulo Freire

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,

— Alister E. McGrath

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

— Jimmy Carter

“As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.”

— Bryant McGill

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

— Anne Michaels

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

— Jenna Bush

Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

— Buck Brannaman

I've done admin work, preaching and teaching, youth ministry, marital counseling, etc.

— Trip Lee

That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

— Gregory Maguire

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

— Shirley MacLaine

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

— Howard Gardner

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

— Anonymous

Wisdom, it seems, is not a teachable thing, it seems it can only be learned.

— T Jay Taylor

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

— Pope Francis

“We do not actually know other nations; we only know our judgements.”

— Bryant McGill

The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.

— William Glasser