Teaching Quotes
2884 quotes by 1847 authors
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
— Jacques Barzun
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
— Jacques Barzun
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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
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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
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
— Joseph Addison
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
— Samuel Beckett
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler
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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
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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
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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
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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
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
— William Blake
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
— William Blake
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