Teaching Quotes

2884 Teaching quotes by 1777 unique authors

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. — Baltasar Gracian
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. — Alexander the Great
Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool. — Ashley Greene
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… — Lady Gregory
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a… — Cathy Guisewite
I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention. — Tim Gunn
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. — Charles Caleb Colton
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the… — Confucius
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English… — Benedict Cumberbatch
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges… — Samuel Dash
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools. — Jim DeMint
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. — W. Edwards Deming
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And… — Jacques Derrida
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. — Rene Descartes
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things… — Junot Diaz
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down… — Phyllis Diller
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. — Ernest Dimnet
Little things affect little minds. — Benjamin Disraeli
I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids… — Snoop Dogg
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people… — Peter Drucker

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