Teaching Quotes
2884 quotes by 1835 authors
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The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it…
— Rajneesh
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Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to…
— Origen
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You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are…
— Byron Katie
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The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening…
— John Ruskin
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...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than…
— Lewis Thomas
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When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
— George Polya
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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until…
— Michael Faraday
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We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
— Bertrand Russell
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The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form…
— Benjamin Rush
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The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate…
— Jimmy Carter
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I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour…
— Rajneesh
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