Being a teacher Quote by Carl Linnaeus

“Our academic system rewards people who know a lot of stuff and generally we call those people smart, but at the end of the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

— Laozi

“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don't know everything whereas specialists think they do.”

— V. R. Roadifer

“Those moments of knowing are sharp and merciless, but then they fade out, like stars when the sky gets light in the morning. You…

— Joan Wickersham

“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the…

— René Descartes

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.”

— Sara Levine

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make…

— Laurie Beth Jones

“When a teacher helps someone to discover something, the teacher always learn something new too.”

— Paulo Coelho