Teaching Quotes
2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors
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For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer…
— Douglas B. Reeves
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Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction…
— Charles Babbage
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To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be taken away. You…
— Rajneesh
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and…
— Alphonsus Rodriguez
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Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
— Jim Henson
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To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
— Gautama Buddha
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How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!
— Ezra Taft Benson
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We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit…
— Ajahn Chah
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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
— Mark Twain
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We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our…
— Ellen G. White
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The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.
— George Lucas
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession…
— Tobias Wolff
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There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.
— Nhat Hanh
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I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach…
— Alice Walker
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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the…
— Randall Terry
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It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
— Edward Sapir
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The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
— John Milton
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I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
— Peter Maxwell Davies
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Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.
— Harry Crews
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
— Taslima Nasrin
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It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
— Douglas Hurd
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What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as…
— Harri Holkeri
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I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching…
— David Eddings
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