Teaching Quotes

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even… — Scott Adams
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. — Glenn Beck
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. — Joseph Addison
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. — Samuel Beckett
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed… — Pope Benedict XVI
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in… — Warren G. Bennis
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much… — A. C. Benson
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness,… — Ezra Taft Benson
When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain… — Ezra Taft Benson
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective… — Claude Bernard
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. — Mortimer Adler
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge,… — Annie Besant
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what… — Annie Besant
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all… — Annie Besant
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of… — Annie Besant
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. — Ambrose Bierce
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot. — William Blake

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